If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
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-- Ernest Dimnet You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
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In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
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- Ross MacDonald Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Industries Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
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