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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.: Condoleeza Rice
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Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2003
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.: John Irving (1942 - )
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946
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Love has no place in a lawyer's office.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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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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Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250: Harper's Index, October 1989
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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.: April Foiles
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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.: Thomas Hardy
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.: Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.: Jules de Gaultier
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My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.: Dale Carnegie
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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.: Alfred E. Newman
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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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