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I don't really trust a sane person.: Lyle Alzado (1949 - 1992)
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.: Herman Wouk (1915 - )
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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.: Clarence E. Hodges
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.: May Sarton
When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go... A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?: Art Hoppe
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.: John Lancaster Spalding
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.: Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
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You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.: Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.: White Eagle