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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.: Jane Goodall (1934 - ), Lecture in Salt Lake City, Utah, 03-04-08
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.: John Tudor
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.: H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple Confidential 2.0
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.: Michael Pritchard
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There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!: Charles Swindoll
There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don’t need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun … and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is.: Matthew Oliphant, Useability Works, 03-22-2006
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.: Jane Howard, "Families"
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If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.: Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.: Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)
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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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This is like deja vu all over again.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )