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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.: Bob Edwards
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.: Rita Rudner
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.: Ramsay Clark
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Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979), Advice on acting
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.: Michael Pritchard
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The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.: Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.: Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618)
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.: Christina Baldwin
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
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You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.: Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)
Silence is the virtue of fools.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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