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People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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You never can see into someone else's marriage.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.: Virginia Kelley
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.: Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.: Alan Saporta
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
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We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.: Dennis Miller
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.: Aimee Mullins, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.: Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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A poem is no place for an idea.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), Country Town Sayings, 1911
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I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.: Unknown