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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), (attributed)
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For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.: Ancient Proverb
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Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.: Evan Davis
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.: Mick Jagger (1943 - )
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.: Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988)
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.: H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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I hate women because they always know where things are.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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