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When things are at their worst I find something always happens.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.: Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
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In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.: Mogens Jallberg
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.: David Shore, House M.D., Pilot, 2004
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.: A. Sachs
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.: Quentin Crisp
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content #1356, 03-10-09
A fresh start was only fresh if one embraced the changes that came with it.: Hester Fox, The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, 2023
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It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.: Scott Adams (1957 - )
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.: John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
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Television has raised writing to a new low.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.: Nancy Spain
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.: Thomas Heatherwick, TED, Building the Seed Cathedral, March 2011
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