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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Never regret something that once made you smile.: Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.: Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.: Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
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You don't have to die in order to make a living.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 10-14-05
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[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.: Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
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It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Tweek Vs. Craig, 1999
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.: Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.: Carlos A. Urbizo
You try to give away what you want yourself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.: Sidney J. Harris
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I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.: Ellen DeGeneres