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I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.: Elizabeth Stone
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.: Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
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I hate women because they always know where things are.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.: Anna Jameson
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.: Margaret Fairless Barber
I never know how much of what I say is true.: Bette Midler (1945 - )
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.: J. Arthur Thomson
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.: Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.: Kanye West
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
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.: Herb Caen
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Instant gratification takes too long.: Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can’t love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn’t scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 26. Write from the heart., 08-22-04