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  • Douglas Adams Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Anita Brookner Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • John Gay Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Ben Hecht Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Jeremy Schwartz Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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  • Wayne Dyer Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Anais Nin Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Oscar Wilde London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Margaret Drabble London, how could one ever be tired of it?
    The Middle Ground (2013) 107
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Albert Einstein Loneliness is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is mature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Gerda Lerner Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.
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  • Anna Quindlen Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Pat Riley Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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