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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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George Washington (1732 - 1799)
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
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Unknown
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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Richard Wagner
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
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Gallagher
[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.
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Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
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Russell Baker (1925 - )
Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
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Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly
It's better to be a company than to work for a company.
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Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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