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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.: Diana Spencer
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.: Jennifer Louden
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), O Magazine, October 2003
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
It is hard work, but there is happiness in it.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.: Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.: Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.: Doug Larson
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We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.: Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.: George Best
Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.: Jerry Garcia, (of the Grateful Dead)
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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