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We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.: Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.: John Green, VlogBrothers, A Poem for Spring, 03-26-13
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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.: Dana Carvey (1955 - )
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.: Thich Nhat Hanh
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?: Steven Wright (1955 - )
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.: Saint Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.: Jules de Gaultier
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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.: Ann Richards
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.: Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)
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You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period.: Steven Conrad, Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )