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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
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Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
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Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958), Crewe Train, 1926
If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.
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W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.
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Derek Sivers, TED Talk: Weird, or just different? Nov 2009
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
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Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
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I stand in awe of my body.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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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.
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Hugh Prather
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
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Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
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Robert Orben
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
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Ancient Proverb
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
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James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
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Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
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Elizabeth David
Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.
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Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
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Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
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William Hale White
Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.
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Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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