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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Hope is necessary in every condition.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
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Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
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Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
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Phillip Lopate
That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.
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Greg Garcia, Raising Hope, Dead Tooth, 09-28-10
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
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Jewish Proverb
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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Marilyn Ferguson
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
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Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
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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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