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I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-10-06
Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead.
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Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
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Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
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Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
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Franklin P. Jones
Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.
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John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist.
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Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.
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Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
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Don Delillo
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