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Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!: R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.: Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003
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You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.: Unknown
I have found that everything wants to kill you. For some things, like fast food, or riding a bike, it just takes longer.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
I like sports bars. Sports bars are great because they collect all of the people I don't want to hang out with, and put them in one room.: Demetri Martin, The Overthinker, Netflix, 2018
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.: Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.: B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990)
The future will be better tomorrow.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
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While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1737
I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.: Dr. Ana M Guzman
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)
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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.: Spanish Proverb
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Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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All marriages are mixed marriages.: Chantal Saperstein
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