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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
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Ellen DeGeneres, US Magazine, January 1995
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Clement Atlee
Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
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George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
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Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-09-04
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
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Alan Woods
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
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An English Professor, Ohio University
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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Jewish Proverb
If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.
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Robert Redford (1937 - )
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
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James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
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Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
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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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