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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
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Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
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Unknown
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
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Shakti Gawain
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
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Dave Barry (1947 - )
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
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Jim Bishop
We are most alive when we're in love.
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John Updike (1932 - )
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.
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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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Thomas Berger
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
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Doug Larson
Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'
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Joan McIntosh
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
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James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
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Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
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Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
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Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)
We can’t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.
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Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
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Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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