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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.: Herman Wouk (1915 - )
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People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.: Franklin P. Jones
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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I never know how much of what I say is true.: Bette Midler (1945 - )
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.: Chinese Proverb
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Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.: Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.: A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 - 1943)
Equations are the devil's sentences.: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!: Amy Tan (1952 - )
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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
Maybe it's what's inside that counts, but being told you look good feels good!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.: Richter cartoon caption
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.: Ursula K. LeGuin