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[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.: Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003
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Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
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Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.: Dick Werthimer
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Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.: Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.: John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"
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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.: Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.: Mary Wilson Little
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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Live well. It is the greatest revenge.: The Talmud
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Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Be gentle with the young.: Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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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)
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.: Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring