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Kneeling over a trickling mountain stream and pumping every ounce of water you use though a filter can really change your perception of turning on a faucet.: Eric Voorhis, Camping Earth, Backcountry Camping Can Be A Stressful Pursuit, 03-02-12
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What The Dead Men Say, 1964
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.: Tom Wilson, "Ziggy" (comic)
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.: David Shore, House M.D., Three Stories, 2004
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.: Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.: Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.: Hugh Prather
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.: Spanish Proverb
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Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?: John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.: Roseanne Barr
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
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This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.: Frederick William Robertson