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I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing,
so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

... Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999


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The way to procure insults is to submit to them:
a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

... William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)


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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

... Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)


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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others,
that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

... Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)


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Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect
are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

... Thomas H. Huxley


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Dont stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed!
George Burns (1896 - 1996)

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

... Max Frisch


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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

... Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)


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You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

... H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )


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Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.

... Samuel Johnson


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