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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.: Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
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Children are all foreigners.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.: Dennis Miller
When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.: Minor White
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.: Henry C. Link
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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.: Ellen DeGeneres
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.: Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
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The best way out is always through.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.: Roberto Benigni (1952 - ), in Newsweek
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If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.: the Dhammapada
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
Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.: Matthias, Correction Weblog, 11-01-03
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