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My work is a game, a very serious game.: M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
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You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.: Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)
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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.: M. C. Richards
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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004
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A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.: May Sarton
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A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.: Ken Doherty
If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer.: Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 10-02-07
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.: Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
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[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.: Leon Tec, M.D.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.: Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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