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Health food makes me sick.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Clarke's first law
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease.: R. D. Laing
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.: Shana Alexander
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.: Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004)
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.: George Ade (1866 - 1944)
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Self-Dependence'
It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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What if this weren't a hypothetical question?: Unknown
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.: Lucille Clifton
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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