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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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When we make assumptions, we contribute to the complexity rather than the simplicity of a problem, making it more difficult to solve.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.: Paul Tournier
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.: Louis Schwartzberg, Marie Curie, 2011
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.: Jim Horning
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On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - ), lecturing in "The Nature of Math", 4/4/90
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.: David T. Wolf (1943 - )
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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Self-Dependence'
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Elijah Aron, Jordan Young, Raising Hope, Cheaters, April 2011
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It's actually easy to tell if your house is haunted: It isn't. Grow up.: Jimmy Carr, Netflix special, 2019
You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period.: Steven Conrad, Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.: Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936)
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.: Ann Richards
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.: Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616)