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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.: Johann K. Lavater
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When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?': Rita Rudner
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We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.: Edward Sellner
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.: Arnold Bennett
I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
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People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.: M. C. Richards
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.: John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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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
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.: Hansell B. Duckett
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Honesty is the best image.: Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.: Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)
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Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.: Unknown
The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.: From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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