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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
The things you own end up owning you.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.: Paul Eldridge
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.: Jimmy Demaret
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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.: Rosie O'Donnell, Today Show interview, 04-08-08
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It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.: American Heart Association Cookbook
The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.: Franklin P. Jones
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables'
Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Don't fall before you're pushed.: English Proverb
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I don't really trust a sane person.: Lyle Alzado (1949 - 1992)
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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