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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.: Ellen DeGeneres, US Magazine, January 1995
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.: Clement Atlee
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Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-09-04
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
Blame someone else and get on with your life.: Alan Woods
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.: An English Professor, Ohio University
Worries go down better with soup than without.: Jewish Proverb
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If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.: Robert Redford (1937 - )
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.: James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.: Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
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