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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.: Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #72
How his death hung over that house. It’s part of what I know to be true—your absence is greater than your presence.: Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, 2013
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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.: Meister Eckhart
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
Honesty is the best image.: Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)
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True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.: Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
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If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.: Roger van der Heide, TED: Why light neds darkness
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.: Claude Swanson (1862 - 1939)
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.: Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935
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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.: Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
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