Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ~Antoine Rivarol
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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