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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?': Jay Leno (1950 - )
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.: Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
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I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.: Jack Handey (1949 - )
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.: Joseph Rickaby
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.: Dan McKinnon
Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
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