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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.: Bill Murray (1950 - )
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.: Isabelle Eberhardt
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.: Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.: Tina Fey, Max 60 Seconds, 2008
Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.: Lord Jeffery
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We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.: Eli Attie, House M.D., Parents, 11-14-2011
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.: Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.: Norman Ford
I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.: Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.: Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970), on refusing Western economic assistance, 'Realites,' January 20, 1969
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.: Michael Pritchard
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Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.: Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)