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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.: G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.: James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.: Rita Mae Brown
Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.: The Mishnah
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.: Simone de Beauvoir
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.: Unknown
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
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Nothing fails like success.: Gerald Nachman
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-04
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954
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What I learned from Weight Watchers is that food was meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If we are using it for any other reasons, it is time to take a step back and ask ourselves what’s up.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.: Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.: Brenda Ueland