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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 11-14-08
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.: Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.: Kazuo Inamori
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.: William Cecil Burleigh
Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.: Kate Winslet, Oscar Acceptance Speech, 02-22-09
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives,' Thoughts and Meditations, 1960
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.: Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.: Jean Kerr
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Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-23-05
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.: Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
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Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.: Anonymous
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.: Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
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Sanity is a madness put to good use.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.: Gail Pool
Use soft words and hard arguments.: English Proverb
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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.: Peter Minard
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