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Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.: National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.: Yogi Berra (1925 - ), as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963
Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.: Sylvia Robinson
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.: Thomas Overbury (1581 - 1613)
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.: Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.: Fritz Perls
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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)
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
A friend is a gift you give yourself.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.: Paul Dudley White
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I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.: Alvin Toffler