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Honesty is the best image.: Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)
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That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.: Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.: Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.: Colin Powell (1937 - )
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.: Harold B. Lee (1899 - 1973)
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Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.: Shakti Gawain
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.: Austin Phelps
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.: C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
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Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.: Whoopi Goldberg
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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Man is what he eats.: Ludwig Feuerbach
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