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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.: Margo Kaufman
You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal husband, 1893
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.: Simone de Beauvoir
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 30, 2003
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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.: Wally 'Famous' Amos (1936 - )
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.: Frederick Langbridge (1849 - 1923)
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.: Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05
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Fall seven times, stand up eight.: Japanese Proverb
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Canterville Ghost, 1882
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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