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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.: Freya Madeline Stark
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.: Howard Newton
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
In the end, everything is a gag.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
None of us is as smart as all of us.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.: George Ade (1866 - 1944)
Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer%uFFFDs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946), in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels"
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.: Italian Proverb
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Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.: J. Hart (1931 - )
When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.: Margaret Lee Runbeck
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.: Erica Jong
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.: Brendan Gill
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"