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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Good food ends with good talk.: Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.: J. Bartlett Brebner
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No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.: Eli Attie, House M.D., Parents, 11-14-2011
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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.: Dorothee Solle
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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Just because we've been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.: The Talmud
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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.: Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love," 1992
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.: Christopher Lasch
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Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.: Hobart Brown