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Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.: Seth MacFarlane, The Family Guy
Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.: Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.: Jewish Proverb
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.: Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
Nothing ever goes away.: Barry Commoner (1917 - )
Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.: Percy Cerutty
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Is there life before death?: Graffito, in Belfast
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.: Marcus Brigstocke
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.: Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"