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J. W. Eagan
Never judge a book by its movie.
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Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Erma Bombeck
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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William Ralph Inge, 1920
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.
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General Douglas Macarthur
Americans never quit.
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Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses
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Zen Proverb
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
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Augustus Hare
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
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James Grover Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 2
He that dies pays all debts.
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