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You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), quoted by Susan Litwin in 'TV Guide'
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.: George Iles
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
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That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.: Storm Jameson
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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An optimist is the human personification of spring.: Susan J. Bissonette
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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.: Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977)
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.: Jewish Proverb
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