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I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-10-06
Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.: Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
I'm still an atheist, thank God.: Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)
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It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.: Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
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It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.: Franklin P. Jones
Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
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It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
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Health is not valued till sickness comes.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.: Don Delillo