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I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.: Harriet Lerner
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.: Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), De Profundis, 1905
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.: Margot Asquith
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.: Robert Sternberg
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Babies are cool, until you've done everything to do with 'em and you get bored. That's why T.V. shows about babies don't last more than a year.: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Alan Kirschenbaum, Raising Hope, Burt Rocks, November 30, 2010
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Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.: Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.: James Feibleman
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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
When we make assumptions, we contribute to the complexity rather than the simplicity of a problem, making it more difficult to solve.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011