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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.: Cullen Hightower
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.: Rita Mae Brown
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Creators Syndicate
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
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Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Count Diodati, 1807
Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.: Emile Coue (1857 - 1926)
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.: Gloria Naylor
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.: Raoul Vaneigem
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.: Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958
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I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.: Steve Martin (1945 - )
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.: Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2003
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.: Woody Allen (1935 - )