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To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.: Jim Beggs
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.: Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003
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There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli.: Tish Grier, love and sex and dreams, 04-15-06
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
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Sending important messages via text is the coward’s way out. Don’t be the person who texts important messages. It’s rude, inconsiderate, and, yes, cowardly.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.: Will Cuppy
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Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.: Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.: Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.: Richard Bach
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Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is.: Brian Buckner, True Blood, Plaisir d'amour, 2008
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.: Rebecca Johnson, in 'Vogue'
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