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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.: H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)
My toughest fight was with my first wife.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
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When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
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Our envy of others devours us most of all.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.: Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.: Mortimer Adler
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.: Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
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There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.: Diana Nyad
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.: Meister Eckhart
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.: Jessica Alba
There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.: L. M. Boyd