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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.: Ann Richards
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.: Elizabeth Elton Smith
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.: May Sarton
The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.: Jeff Foxworthy
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
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Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.: Meredith Willson, The Music Man
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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