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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.: Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
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Women should be obscene and not heard.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.: African Proverb
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Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.: Arthur Brisbane
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.: George Winters
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2003
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it's usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.: William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
Life is full of obstacle illusions.: Grant Frazier
Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.: Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)
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