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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919 - )
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
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King Whitney Jr.
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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Minna Thomas Antrim
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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Richard Bach
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
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Israel Salanter
Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.
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Bill Tammeus, in Toronto's National Newspaper, 1991
ALL things great are wound up with all things little.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'experience,' 1580-88
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
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Ed Macauley
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
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Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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