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He who would leap high must take a long run.
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Danish Proverb
Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.
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Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.
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Sefer Hasidim
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
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Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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Stuart's Law of Retroaction
Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.
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Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
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Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
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Unknown
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.
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Dianne Hales
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
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Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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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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