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By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.: Russell P. Askue
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.: John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
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I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.: Karl von Bonstetten
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If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.: Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 9, 08-22-04
If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.: Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05
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No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-04-04
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Adventure is just bad planning.: Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.: Arab Proverb
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