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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.: Unknown
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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.: Shakti Gawain
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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.: Jim Bishop
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We are most alive when we're in love.: John Updike (1932 - )
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.: Thomas Berger
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.: Doug Larson
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Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.': Joan McIntosh
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.: Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943
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Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?: Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)
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We can’t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.': Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)