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Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.: Malayan Proverb
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I’ve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.: Laura Moncur, Merriton, 06-04-08
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There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.: Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.: J. G. C. Brainard
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.: Lucille Clifton
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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