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The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.: Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.: Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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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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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.: Sir William Drummond
Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.: Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter, The Human Face, 2001
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.: Annie Dillard, 'The Writing Life'
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), The Courage to Be
He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz
Laughter is by definition healthy.: Doris Lessing
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One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954
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What's done cannot be undone.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.: Margaret Bonnano
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)