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You never can see into someone else's marriage.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.: Larry Gelbart
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It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.: Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.: Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)
Oppression can only survive through silence.: Carmen de Monteflores
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.: Mel Brooks (1926 - )
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.: John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
All television is children's television.: Richard P. Adler
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
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Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.: Russell R. McIntyre
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.: George Sheehan
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The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.: Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC - 27 BC)
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.: Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.: Christiane Northrup, M.D.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
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