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Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.: Kay Ryan
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.: Jimmy Buffett
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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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ALL things great are wound up with all things little.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.: Dr. Rob Gilbert
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), quoted by Susan Litwin in 'TV Guide'
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.: Arthur Wellesley (1769 - 1852), (first Duke of Wellington)
Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.: Barry Switzer (1937 - )
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In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
Gluttony is not a secret vice.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.: Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
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