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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.: Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.: Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
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Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.: Joseph Rickaby
When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Elijah Aron, Jordan Young, Raising Hope, Cheaters, April 2011
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Anything you fully do is an alone journey.: Natalie Goldberg
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.: John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.: Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.: Nancy Reagan (1921 - )