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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.: Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), 1780
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), speaking of Katharine Hepburn
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.: Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
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Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.: Muriel Spark (1918 - )
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.: J. Hart (1931 - )
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.: John Cleese (1939 - )
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Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974), Goldwyn's Law of Contracts