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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.


Erma Bombeck

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“No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.”

George Bernard Shaw

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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.


Woody Allen

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Fury itself supplies arms.


Virgil

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“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.”


Jonathan Carroll

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“The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.”

Henry Boye

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“The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.”


Wilson Mizner

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“The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”

William Blake

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As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.


Andre Norton

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“Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.”


Albert Einstein

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“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”


Friedrich Nietzsche

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I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.


Audrey Hepburn

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.


Albert Einstein

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.


Dalai Lama

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“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

Seneca

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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.


Groucho Marx

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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

Sigmund Freud

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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.


Charles Mackay

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“We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”

Martin Luther King,

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“The heart is the only broken instrument that works.”

T. E. Kalem

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“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”


Lewis Carroll

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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.

Tennessee Williams

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“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”


William Arthur Ward

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“Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?”

William Shakespeare

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And say my glory was I had such friends.


William Butler Yeats

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“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”


Baltasar Gracian

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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.


Henry David Thoreau

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“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.”


Christopher Morley

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There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.


Jon Postel

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“Japan has one of the largest concentrations of multinational companies in the world, ... It's an extraordinary growth opportunity for all three companies and it is essential that the global venture have a strong distributor in this key market.”

Michael Armstrong

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.


John F. Kennedy

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... all my life I’ve been terrible at remembering people’s names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Tallulah Bankhead

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Thats so funny:lol:


“Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.”



Marcus Aurelius

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I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.


Bob Hope

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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.


Arthur C Clarke

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It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.”


Brendan Gill

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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfillment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.


Helen Garner

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.


Carl Jung

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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott ~