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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport: Unknown, Suggested book title
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
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It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.: Sydney Biddle Barrows, in Marian Christy, ''Mayflower Madam' Tells All,' Boston Globe, 1986
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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.: Barbara Tober
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.: Aphra Behn
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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But be, as you have been, my happiness...: Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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This book fills a much-needed gap.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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