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Love can be sordid only if you work at it.
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Brooke McEldowney, 9 Chickweed Lane, 05-10-2006
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
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Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Les Enfants Terribles
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Diluting your product to make it more 'commercial' will just make people like it less.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 21. Selling out is harder than it looks., 08-22-04
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten
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Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
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Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
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John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.
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Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.
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Diana Nyad
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
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Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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
Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it.
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Joe Brown and David Brown
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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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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