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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.: Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Hold a true friend with both hands.: Nigerian Proverb
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.: Doug Larson
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.: Alice Hoffman, 'Here on Earth'
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Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
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Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.: John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.: G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947)
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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Revolution is not a onetime event.: Audre Lorde
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It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )