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The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.: Marilyn Ferguson
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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal husband, 1893
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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.: George Saunders, last words
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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.: Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Northern Hospitality, 1994
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After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.: Unknown
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.: Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.: Bill Murray (1950 - )
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.: Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), 1958
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.: Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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