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  • Aaron Sorkin There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bill Bryson There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Carl Honore There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Butler There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Denis Waitley There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Mark Twain There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Korzybski There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Bernard Malamud There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • John Fowles There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
    John Fowles
    English novelist (1926 - 2005)
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  • Casey Stengel There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Mark Twain There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Carl Bernstein There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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