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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.: Mignon McLaughlin
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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.: William Safire (1929 - )
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Worries go down better with soup than without.: Jewish Proverb
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Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.: Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
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I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.: Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 08-06-08
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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915