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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.: Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.: Dean Martin
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True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.: Demetri Martin
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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.: Jack Layton, Letter to Canada, 08-20-2011
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.: John Lancaster Spalding
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
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The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.: Minor White
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
A minute's success pays the failure of years.: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.: Chilo
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For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.: Storm Jameson
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)