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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.: John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647
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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
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A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.: Raelle Tucker, True Blood, Cold Ground, 2008
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.: Peter De Vries
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.: Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.: Narenda Rocherolle, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
Don't waste too much time trying' to be a better man, ' cause you ain't never gonna be one without a good woman.: Mark Roberts, Mike & Molly, Peggy's New Beau, May 16, 2011
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The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.: George Washington (1732 - 1799), letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
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First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.: Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957
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Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.": Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)