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  • Bootsy Collins A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Plutarch A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Curtis Carlson A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Bob Hope A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Alfred Adler A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Joan Didion A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
    Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 192
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Burt Bacharach A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Rex Steven Sikes A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Baltasar Gracian A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Burt Bacharach A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Russell B. Long A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
    Russell B. Long
    American Democratic politician (1918 - 2003)
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  • John Ruskin A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Annie Leibovitz A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Caroline Leavitt A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Ronald Reagan A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
    Source: Sacramento Bee, 3 March 1966, Redwood Nat. Park
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Len Wein A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else.
    Len Wein
     
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