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Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.: La Fontaine
Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.: Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
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One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 09-17-08
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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.: Penn Jillette (1955 - )
We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 438 B.C.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.: Joe Ancis
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.: Neil Gaiman, Sandman
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.: Lech Walesa (1943 - )
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.: David Russell
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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