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A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.: Unknown
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.: Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Never eat more than you can lift.: Miss Piggy
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People age even when you're not looking.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 07-30-08
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There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.: Robert Half
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Symbiosis is a much more powerful agent of change, and a much more successful one.: David Walton, Genius Plague, 2017
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Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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