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One picture is worth a thousand words.: Fred R. Barnard
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.: Margaret Bonnano
You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.: Donald Trump (1946 - ), Press Conference, February 16, 2017
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.: Ellen DeGeneres, (attributed)
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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.: Ernest Haskins
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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.: 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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You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.: Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.: Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
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Ask advice only of your equals.: Danish Proverb
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