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By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
This life gets bitterly cold. Sometimes you just need to cling to the person that you can claw your way out of the dark with.: Chris Dingess, Being Human, Wouldn't It Be Nice (If We Were Human), 2011
He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.: Unknown
What you are is a question only you can answer.: Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Measure for Measure'
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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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 - )
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.: Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
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Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.: Evan Davis
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.: Philip Gold, Doctors: Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes 2005 Calendar
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Do not employ handsome servants.: Chinese Proverb
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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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