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A problem isn’t a problem until it actually happens.
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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.
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Cathy Ladman
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 11-14-08
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
Maybe it's what's inside that counts, but being told you look good feels good!
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
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Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
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Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Les Enfants Terribles
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
Death comes to all
But great achievements raise a monument
Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
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George Fabricius, 'In Praise of Georgius Agricola'
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
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David Friedman
One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
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Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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