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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
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“If you don’t want flour, do not get into the mill.” — Irish Proverb

“Every event that a man would. master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there’s a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.” — Alice Hoffman

“Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.” — Tim McMahon

 

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“It is not a fish until it is on the bank.” — Irish Proverb

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” — Maya Angelou

“Sometimes you don’t need a goal in life, you don’t need to know the big picture. You just need to know what you’re going to do next!” — Sophie Kinsella

“When I meet a man I ask myself, ‘Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'” — Rita Rudner

 
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“A light heart lives long.” — Irish Proverb

“A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.” — Aristotle

“Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. ‘You forget,’ said the Devil, with a chuckle, ‘that I have been evolving too.’” — William Ralph Inge

“I’m thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.” — Dana Carvey

 

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“Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.”* — Thomas Fuller

“A smile is the light in your window that tells others there is a caring, sharing person inside.” — Denis Waitley

“The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.” — Irish Proverb

“The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.” — Peter Ustinov

 

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“A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.” — Irish Proverb

“The fact that someone else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself.” — Sahaj Kohli

“While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.” — Lady Bird Johnson

“I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.” — Charles Lamb

 

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“God made time, but man made haste.” — Irish Proverb

“For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.” — Larry Eisenberg

“The hard work puts you where the good luck can Find you.” — Unknown

“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.” — Doug Larson

 

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“Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it’s warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor.” — Irish Proverb

“Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.” — Stanislaw Lec

“We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.” — Robert Benchley

“A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they’re loaded or not.” — Franklin Jones

 

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