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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.: W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963), last message to the world, 1957
Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.: C. V. R. Thompson
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.: Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.: Jeanne Moreau
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.: Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
Vigorous writing is concise.: William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
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You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader's Digest, 1979
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.: Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)