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If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?: Shantideva
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.: Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
All my possessions for a moment of time.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
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Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.": Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
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New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.: David Letterman (1947 - )
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.: Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!': Ellen DeGeneres, on Oprah Winfrey 1995
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.: Price Cobb
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.: Josiah Quincy
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