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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.: Howard Thurman
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.: David Shore, House M.D., Three Stories, 2004
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I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), speaking of Katharine Hepburn
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.: George Bush (1924 - )
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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
I think when I work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.: Armand Hammer (1898 - 1990)
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.: Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.: Joseph F. Newton
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I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
I am open to receive with every breath I breathe.: Michael Sun
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.: John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
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Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000