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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009
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Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.: George Ade (1866 - 1944)
As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.: Marya Mannes
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.: Ed Meese (1931 - ), on the Hinckley verdict
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.: Anonymous, Also used in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.: W. H. Thompson
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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.: Italian Proverb
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.: Peter De Vries
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.: Cullen Hightower
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Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.: Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident, 2013
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Sometimes ya gotta do stuff 'cause it's expected of ya, not 'cause of anything else.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08