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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.: Dale Carnegie
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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I think when I work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.: Armand Hammer (1898 - 1990)
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.: Henrik Tikkanen
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Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.: Jane Wagner
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.: Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009
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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.: Quentin Crisp
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.: J. W. Schopf
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