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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.: Roger Moore (1927 - )
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.: Garrison Keillor (1942 - ), in Salon.com
You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
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I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.: T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace, Penny and Aggie, 09-12-05
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I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.: Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948
I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.: Lady Gaga (1986 - ), The Today Show, 12-08-08
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.: Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #72
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.: Rita Rudner
Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.: Hob Broun
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True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.: Hugh Prather
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.: Norman Brenner
I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), Against Interpretation, 1966
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