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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.: Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.: Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.: Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
Play by the rules, but be ferocious.: Phil Knight, founder of Nike
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Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.: Hobart Brown
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.: Bernard Bailey
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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.: Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
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Honor does not have to be defended.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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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An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
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A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.: Henry Morgan
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)