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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.
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Mike Tatum, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
I've decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.
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Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 06-04-08
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
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Martin Mull (1943 - )
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
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Harrison Ford (1942 - ), as Indiana Jones
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
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George Sand (1804 - 1876)
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
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Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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John Constable (1776 - 1837)
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
Who is wise? He that learns from every One.
Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
Who is that? Nobody.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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