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Is there anything better than to be longing for something when you know it is within reach?

Greta Carbo,quoted in Real Simple


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It isn't what they say about you,it's what they whisper.

Errol Flynn.quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln,quoted in the Hillsboro,Kansas Free Press


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When somebody says it's not about the money--it's about the money.

H.L.Mencken,quoted in The New York Times


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When somebody say's it's not about the sex--it's about the sex.

Former Sen. Dale Bumpers,ibid.


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The toughest thing about success is that you're got to keep on being a success.

Iving Berlin-quoted in Enterpreneur


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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw ,quoted in Go! Magazine


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A man who tries to carry a cat home by its tail will learn a lesson that can be learned in no other way.

Mark Twain,quoted in The New York Times


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Insects do not sting out of malice but because they also want to live;likewise out critics--they want our blood,not our pain.

Friedrich Nietzsche,quoted in the London Independent


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Is is possible to fail in many ways,while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle,quoted in the Wilkes-Barre,Pa Time Leader


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there's no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus,quoted in the Staunton,Va.Daily News Leader


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Being in politics is like being a football coach.You have to be smart enough to understand the game,and dumb enough to think it's important

Eugenr McCarthy,quoted in The Washington Post.


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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth and unknown to themselves

Essayist William Hazlitt,quoted in the London Independent


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A trial is when a jury decides which side has the best set of lawyers.

Mark Twain,quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times


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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

Michel de Montaigne,quoted in the International Herald Tribune


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Do one thing,and do it so well that people will return and bring their friends with them.

Walt Disney,quoted in the Indianapolis Star


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If you don't know where you are going,any road will take you there.

Lewis Carroll,quoted in Direct magizine


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Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Frederick Douglass,quoted n The Villsge Voice


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I take a simple view of living.It is a keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Olivier,quoted in the Associated Press.


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Life is about not knowing,having to change,taking the moment and making the best of it,without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious ambiguity

Gilda radner,quoted in the Virginia Lwa Weekly


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