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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
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Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
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Cullen Hightower
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
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Rita Mae Brown
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
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Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Creators Syndicate
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
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Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Count Diodati, 1807
Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
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Emile Coue (1857 - 1926)
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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Gloria Naylor
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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Raoul Vaneigem
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958
I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
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Steve Martin (1945 - )
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
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Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2003
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
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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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