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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.: Unknown
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.: Richard Wagner
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People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.: Gallagher
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[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.: Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly
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It's better to be a company than to work for a company.: Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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