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Spare no expense to save money on this one.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.: J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
Even God cannot change the past.: Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC)
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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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
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Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.: Charles Spencer
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.: Dale Carnegie
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.: J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.: Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.: Arnold Lobel
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It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.: Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD)
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.: Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)
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Hitch your wagon to a star.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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