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He who would leap high must take a long run.: Danish Proverb
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Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.: Sefer Hasidim
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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.: Stuart's Law of Retroaction
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.: Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977
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I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.: Unknown
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.: Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.: Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.: Dianne Hales
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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.: Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)