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Health food makes me sick.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.: E. V. Lucas
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.: Storm Jameson
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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.: Phyllis Diller
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.: Unknown
I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got.: Allan Heinberg, Sex and the City, A 'Vogue' Idea, 2002
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.: Sir William Drummond
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.: Alanis Morissette (1974 - ), Reader's Digest, March 2000
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
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I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)