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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.: Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.: La Fontaine
Always be a little kinder than necessary.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.: Tom Masson
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.: Anonymous
I am no more humble than my talents require.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.: Storm Jameson
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.: Doug Larson
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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.: Edward Sellner