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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.: Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
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I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.: Annie Lennox
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A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time.: Gregory Garcia and Dan Coscino, Raising Hope, Happy Halloween, October 26, 2010
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.: Ted Morgan
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.: Stephen King (1947 - ), "Hearts in Atlantis"
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Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.: Narenda Rocherolle, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.: Joel Fuhrman, M.D., Fasting And Eating For Health
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.: Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.: Doris Day (1924 - )
I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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