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“All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.”

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Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

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A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

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Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

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It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

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“Let those who want to, arrive Let those who want to, leave Let those who want to, stay With out harm to me or…

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The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

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The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.

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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

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There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

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The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

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The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

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The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

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Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

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To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that…

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A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

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Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in…

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Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

Barbara Bretton

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There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

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What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of…

Jean de la Bruyere

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When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of…

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It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become…

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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows…

Francois Rabelais

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Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,…

Margaret D. Nadauld

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