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Style is knowing who you are

  Gore Vidal Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. - Gore Vidal Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. - Andy Rooney Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. - Dr. Seuss The body says what words cannot. - Martha Graham It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - Elbert Hubbard The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. - Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.' - Joan McIntosh I would never die for my beliefs because I might be...

The secret of staying young

  Lucille Ball The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. --Lucille Ball All things must change to something new, to something strange. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. --Marie Curie How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? --Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962 You live and learn. At any rate, you live. --Douglas Adams I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. --Jane Austen It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. --Sir Winston Churchill A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. --Herman Melville Lack of money is the root of all evil. --George Bernard Shaw You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. --Jack London READ MORE...

Tears may be dried up...

Marguerite de Valois Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. --Marguerite de Valois Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. --Henry David Thoreau Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. --Walter Winchell It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. --Jonathan Swift The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. --Elizabeth Taylor To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. --Jane Austen Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. --Jean Paul Richter If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play....