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