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Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.: John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
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The crowd gives the leader new strength.: Evenius
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.: Thomas Secker
The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010
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This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.: Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
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Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.": Peter McWilliams, Life 101
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Letter to Nickolas Muray, 12-18-1939
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
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We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.: Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)