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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.: Baltasar Gracian
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.: Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.: Dale Carnegie
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Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.: White Eagle
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.: Baltasar Gracian
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.: Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.: Marquis de la Grange (1639 - 1692)
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.: Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
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So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.: George Lucas (1944 - ), Senator Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
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