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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.: John Viscount Morley
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.: Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.: Cynthia Ozick
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.: R. D. Laing
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
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The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.: Vic Gold
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.: Rodney Yee
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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
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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