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An optimist is the human personification of spring.: Susan J. Bissonette
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Confusion is always the most honest response.: Marty Indik
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?: Scott Adams (1957 - )
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No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...: Donald Barthelme
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.": Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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If you can't be funny, be interesting.: Harold Ross
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.: Maria Schell
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), 'The Pilgrim's Regress'
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I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)