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Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.: James Thorpe (1888 - 1953)
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.: Tupac Shakur, Smile
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.: Joseph Farrell
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If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.: Alvin Toffler
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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.: Norman Brenner
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.: Alan Corenk
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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly adopted child brings out submerged feelings or behavior in his parents that make them dislike themselves. This can be such a severe blow to their self- esteem that they must eradicate the cause of their distress. Sometimes the only way that parents are able to do that is by returning the child.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)