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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
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We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.: Kanye West
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers (1976)
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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You may delay, but time will not.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.: James Rippe, M.D.
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.: Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
They always talk who never think.: Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
Fish and visitors smell in three days.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.: William Arthur Wood
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.: Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990
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It's never too late to be who you might have been.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
The wages of sin are unreported.: Unknown