"Half my life is an act of revision."

Irving, John on life   

"Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old."

Irving, Washington on age and aging
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"They who drink beer will think beer."

Irving, Washington on alcohol and alcoholism
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"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."

Irving, Washington on jealousy
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"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."

Irving, Washington on kindness
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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

Irving, Washington on love
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"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."

Irving, Washington on purpose
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"I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories."

Irving, Washington on writers and writing
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"Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well."

Unknown, Source on success
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

Cowper, William on absence
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"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."

Shay, R. E. on luck
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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning..."

Priestley, J. B. on the future
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"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

Key, Ellen on marriage
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"In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark."

Baker, Nicholson on adulthood
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on gambling
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"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."

Allen, James on desire
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Hayes, Helen on achievement
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"The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country."

Denning, Lord on parliament   

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

Lennon, John on god
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"People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled -- secure from violent passions or temptations to evil -- those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints."

Gallienne, Eva Le on saints
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them."

Fairbanks, Douglas on friends and friendship
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"Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral."

Unknown, Source on optimism   

"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."

Fadiman, Clifton on wine
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."

Galeano, Eduardo on temptation
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