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Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.
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Kay Ryan
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
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Jimmy Buffett
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.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
ALL things great are wound up with all things little.
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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.
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Dr. Rob Gilbert
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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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.
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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.
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Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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Barry Switzer (1937 - )
In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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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.
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Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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