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Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?: George Wallace
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.: Stella Benson
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Love is the reason for it all.: Dorothy Fields
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.: Rodney Yee
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.: Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.: Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 11-29-05
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How his death hung over that house. It’s part of what I know to be true—your absence is greater than your presence.: Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, 2013
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Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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