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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.: Lane Olinghouse
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.: Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.: Laurie Anderson, Language Is A Virus
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.: Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.: Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), David Copperfield, 1849
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.: Bill Vaughan
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.: Inigo DeLeon
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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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Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.: Eugene Mirman, LHS Commencement Speech, 2009
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.: Clive Barnes
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.: Dorothy Draper
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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.: Mignon McLaughlin
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