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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.: Joey Adams
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.: George Sheehan
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.: Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.: George Moore
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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
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Fish and visitors smell in three days.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
I dote on his very absence.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.: Aaron Burr (1756 - 1836)
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.: William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
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I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.: Ellen DeGeneres