Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. — Will Smith

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Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?

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Everything you want is on the other side of fear.- Jack Canfield

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jace's clothes had been clean,stylish,ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.

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It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

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The art is long, life is short. _ Hippocrates

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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

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I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. - Tracy Chapman

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It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

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The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

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