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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.: Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
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People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.: Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.: Aprocrypha
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Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.: Christina Baldwin
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.: Robert Byrne
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What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.: Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.: Chinese Proverb
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
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A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.: Unknown
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.: Emil Zatopek
When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of Myself, 1855