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When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.: Lord Falkland (1610 - 1643)
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There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.: Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
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I improve on misquotation.: Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.: Peter De Vries
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), from his essay about the rules of writing
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.: Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus