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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – John Updike

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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We have no patience with other peoples vanity because it is offensive to our own. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. – Robert H. Schuller

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Dios tarda pero no olvida — God delays but doesnt forget. – Proverb

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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. – T. Boone Pickens

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. – Saint Aurelius Augustine

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Politics is pop. Our job as comedians – especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience – is to amplify what we think America is thinking. – Jimmy Fallon

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison

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My mother said to me, If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. – Pablo Picasso

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