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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.: Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.: Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
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He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.: Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.: Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
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The future will be better tomorrow.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.: Wendell Berry
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.: Nancy Friday
I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006