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If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.

—Maria Augusta Trapp

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The toughest part of being on a diet is shutting up about it.

—Gerland Nachman

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

—Bertolt Brecht

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Love without conversation is impossible.

—Mortimer Adler

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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

—Bill Gates

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Whoever said it got easier with time was wrong, death never got easier. The pain dulls around your heart, numbing the spot the deceased inhabited in your chest—but it was never easier. Loss was still loss—a physical pain, a hurt that reaches deep inside you and smothers your soul, forever indenting their memory.

—Kelsie Leverich in The Valentine’s Arrangement

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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

—Will Rogers

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Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.

—Randy K. Milholland

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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

—Mark Twain

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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

—Don Marquis

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Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

—Cavett Robert

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Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

—H.H. Williams

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Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.

—Susan Mallery in Almost Perfect

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

—E. B. White

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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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