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People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.: James Madison (1751 - 1836)
The things you own end up owning you.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.: Mortimer Adler
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.: Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #72
We are who people think we are.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.: H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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For visions come not to polluted eyes.: Mary Howitt
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content #1356, 03-10-09
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.: Jackie Mason (1934 - )
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.: Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)