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[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.: Robert Downey Jr., Entertainment Weekly, 11-21-08
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.: Chinese Proverb
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-30-12
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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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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By the time we've made it, we've had it.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.: Solomon Short
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Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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