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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.: Al Batt, in National Enquirer
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Live forever or die in the attempt.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.: Lillian Carter, in her 80s
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.: Stephen King (1947 - )
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
When you understand that your feelings are triggered by what you think about an event and not by the event itself, you gain a measure of control. Although you cannot control the things (events) that happen to you, or change your feelings (after all, you feel the way you feel), you can change your thoughts. A change in thoughts often radically alters your feelings.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
I always like a good math solution to any love problem.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 1999
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maxims, 1665
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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.: Lee Simonson
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003
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You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.: Ed Meese (1931 - ), on the Hinckley verdict
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)