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I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."
Thomas Edison
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"The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025."
Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom/Blockbuster.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry B. Adams
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
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If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
Philip Crosby
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
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If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Paul Beatty
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Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
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It's the 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney
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The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.
Paul Hogan
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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Margaret Cho
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A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place.
A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.
Carl Burns
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Live your life and forget your age.
Jean Paul
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I don't have to run faster than the bear. I just have to run faster than you.
Anon
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. Chesterton
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett
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The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Ann Landers
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
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Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
John Arbuthnot Fisher
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
Bette Midler
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Andy McIntyre
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton
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What an odd thing tourism is.
You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place!
Bill Bryson
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Everything not forbidden is compulsory.
T.H. White
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Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
'The Poor'
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I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
Bill Bryson
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We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.
Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true!
Robert Wilensky
American academic
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Never wrestle with a pig.
You both get dirty, but the pig likes it!
Anon
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It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't!
Edith Nesbit
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Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in!
H.R. Haldeman - Presidential assistant to Richard Nixon
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
Anon
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Don't let your worries get the best of you; remember Moses started out as a basket case.
Anon
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Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
Anon
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…in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
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My father was a dentist and my mother was a manicurist ... for most of their married life they fought tooth and nail.
Anon
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Your body is free but your heart is in prison.
To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up.
First you begin to listen for messages from your heart - messages you may have been ignoring since childhood.
Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . .
As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . .
It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you’ll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.
Martha Beck
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.
Chinese proverb
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The surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
Og Mandino
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No one lives on the top of the mountain. It’s fine to go there occasionally: for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That’s where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That’s where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.
Arthur Gordon
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A Zen master once said to me, "Do the opposite of whatever I tell you."
So I didn't.
Anon
A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.
Chinese proverb
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
Albert Einstein.
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference.
Virginia Satir
Wherever you go …. there you are.
Anon
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference.
Virginia Satir
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions … think.
Lord Byron (Don Juan)
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
According to a study, they found common words used by happy people are, joy, love and hopeful. And they also found common words used by other people to describe happy people. Annoying, irritating, obnoxious...
Jay Leno
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books.
Paracelsus
The most essential part of a student's instruction is obtained...not in the lecture-room, but at the bedside. Nothing seen there is lost; the rhythms of disease are learned by frequent repetition; its unforeseen occurences stamp themselves indelibly in the memory.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D.
If you do not believe in yourself how can you expect other people to do so? If you have not an abiding faith in the profession you cannot be happy in it.
Sir William Osler
The student begins with the patient, continues with the patient, and ends his studies with the patient, using books and lectures as tools, as means to an end.
Sir William Osler
It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.
Sir William Osler
The wider and freer a man's general education, the better practitioner he is likely to be.
Sir William Osler
I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the ILLUSION of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Judith Kelman
All in favor of conserving petrol, please raise your right foot.
Anon
The clearest indication of the complexity of modern relationships is the greeting cards that are blank on the inside. It's like the card company says, "We give up, you think of something. For seventy-five cents it's not worth us getting involved.
Jerry Seinfeld
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
Integrity is like oxygen - the higher you climb, the less there is of it.
Anon
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H.L. Mencken
If I'd have known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself.
Anon
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh
Moliere
Teenage is the period between hopscotch and real scotch.
Anon
Now that I'm older, my wild oats have turned to prunes and All Bran.
Anon
The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you are using the toilet.
Anon
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker
Kids in the back seat cause accidents; accidents in the back seat cause kids.
Anon
God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
Benjamin Franklin.
Last week, my brother-in-law caught a fish so big that he nearly dislocated his shoulders just describing it.
Anon
You know you’re getting older when your knees buckle and your belt won’t.
Anon
You know you’re getting older when your back goes out more than you do.
Anon
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