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The cure for anything is salt water... tears, sweat or the sea.
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Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales, 1934
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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Minna Thomas Antrim
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
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Chinese Proverb
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
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Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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William Congreve (1670 - 1729), The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
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Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal
That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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May Sarton
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
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Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
If you’re... asking yourself why I have this success and you don’t, don’t be angry with me—stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
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John M. Ford
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Alvin Toffler
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
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Melody Beattie
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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