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Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
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Hasidic Saying
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
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Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.
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Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
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Bill Kelly, Blast from the Past, 1999
How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard.
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Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
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Anthony Walton
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
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Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.
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Ann Richards
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
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Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy Comic, 08-15-07
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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