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Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.: Scipione Alberti
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One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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I stand in awe of my body.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
None of us is as smart as all of us.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.: Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.: Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?": George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
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I am not young enough to know everything.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.: David Russell, I Heart Huckabee's
A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.: Kate Clinton
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.: Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.: William James (1842 - 1910)
Of those who say nothing, few are silent.: Thomas Neill
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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.: Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006)