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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.: Ann Richards
Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.: Louise Beal
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.: Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.: P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.: Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
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The report of my death was an exaggeration.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
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Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.: Alice Munro
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Vigorous writing is concise.: William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.: Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959)
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.: James Madison (1751 - 1836)
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.: J. W. Schopf
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.: Czech Proverb
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