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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.: Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Politics is applesauce.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 02-25-09
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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.: Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967)
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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.: Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.: Anonymous, O Magazine, The Shy Girl's Guide to Sex, February 2003
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I like life. It's something to do.: Ronnie Shakes
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.: Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.: Jerry Chin
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.: Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986
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You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.: H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-29-06
As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.: H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), King Solomon's Mines