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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The only gift is a portion of thyself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.: Charles Buxton
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up.: Howard Gordon and Evan Katz, Awake, Ricky's Tacos, April 2012
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), The Courage to Be
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.: John le Carre (1931 - )
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.: George Sand (1804 - 1876)
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Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.': Dan Parker
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.: King Whitney Jr.
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Be contented when you have got all you want.: Holbrook Jackson
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.: Menander (342 BC - 292 BC)
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
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