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Health is not valued till sickness comes.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.: Unknown
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.: John M. Ford
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973)
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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.: Mary Todd Lincoln (1818 - 1882)
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.: Alexander A. Bogomoletz
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We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.: Buck Henry
People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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The world is my lobster.: Henry J. Tillman
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.: Chuck Norris (1940 - )
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.: Charles Buxton
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.: Percy Cerutty
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003