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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.: Richard Diran
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.: E. H. Gombrich (1909 - )
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.: James Lane Allen
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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.: Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
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My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.: Mike Myers
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.: Rodney Yee
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide, 1759
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Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Last Chance to See"
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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)