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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.: David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, February 25, 2000
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.: Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
Life is too short for traffic.: Dan Bellack
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.: Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
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With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?': Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Be a fountain, not a drain.: Rex Hudler, quoted in 'Sports Illustrated'
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.: Norman Douglas
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