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Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
My favorite animal is steak.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
What you are is a question only you can answer.: Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.: Unknown
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.: Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
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The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.: Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.: Thomas Tusser, 1524
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931
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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.: Errol Flynn (1909 - 1959)
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)