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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
- Andy Rooney
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation
because your character is what you really are
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- Anonymous
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Living in the past will always distort your future.
- Anonymous
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Good friends are like stars... You do not always see them, but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything. If you look at what you have in life, you have everything.
- Anonymous
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The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.
- Anonymous
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Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong.
- Anonymous
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It is never too late to become what I might have been.
- Anonymous
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Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
- Anonymous
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A sharp tongue can cut my own throat.
- Anonymous
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The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
- Anonymous
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Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
- Anonymous
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If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished.
- Anonymous
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When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need.
- Anonymous
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Brain cells come and brain cells go, but FAT cells live forever.
- Anonymous
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The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.
- Anonymous
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I lie the loudest when I lie to myself.
- Anonymous
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Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over?
- Anonymous
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Of all the things I wear, my expression is the most important.
- Anonymous
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The best vitamin for making friends.... B1.
- Anonymous
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Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.
- Anonymous
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One thing I can give and still keep...is my word.
- Anonymous
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Men like to make the wheels go round, which is why so many men go in circles.
- Anonymous
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One thing I can't recycle is wasted time.
- Anonymous
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How come we choose from just two people to run for president and over fifty for Miss America?
- Anonymous
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Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back.
- Anonymous
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What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.
- Anonymous
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Ideas won't work unless ' I ' do.
- Anonymous
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There is even a prayer for bosses: "Forgive us our stresspassers."
- Anonymous
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What is most valuable is not what we have in our lives, but who we have in our lives.
- Anonymous
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My mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open.
- Anonymous
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We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
- Anonymous
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The nice part of living in a small town is that when I don't know what I'm doing, someone else does.
- Anonymous
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If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
- Anonymous
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The 10 commandments are not multiple choice.
- Anonymous
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Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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Old age ain't no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis
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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
- Ben Williams
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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
- Booker T. Washington
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
- Carl Rogers
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Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
- Caryn Leschen
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Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
- C.S. Lewis
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The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
- C.S. Lewis
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He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
- Dante
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You can go back to the place but you can never go back to the time.
- DSM
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Of all the hard things in life, nothing is harder than a hardened heart.
- DSM
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Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
- Ed Cunningham
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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To enjoy the cider, you must first peel the apples.
- English Quote
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being -- hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
- Erma Bombeck
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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
- ES Bouton
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Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
- Franklin P. Jones
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There are two sources of unhappiness in life. One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
- Groucho Marx
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S. Truman
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
- Henry Ford
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
- Jaime H. Young
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I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.
- Janette Barber
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Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.
- Jay Trachman
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It is better to ask the way ten times than to take the wrong road once.
- Jewish Proverb
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
- Josh Billings
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with this hands and brains is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
- Louis Nizer
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm Forbes
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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
- Martin Buxbaum
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin H. Fischer
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Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
- Maryon Pearson
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
- Meister Eckhart
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It's not how much you do, but how much love you put into what you are doing!
- Mother Teresa
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Last night the creative juices were flowing but today I am merely a vast wasteland of random thoughts.
- Peckeroy
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If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.
- Phil Pastoret
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A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Proverb
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
- Plato
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
- Roger Caras
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do, but from liking what we have to do.
- Wilfred Peterson
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Real joy comes not from the ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
- WT Grenfel
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You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
- Ziggy
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