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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.: J. G. C. Brainard
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There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
The family is the country of the heart.: Giuseppe Mazzini (1805 - 1872)
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.: Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Casting Call, 10-21-13
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
What you cannot enforce, do not command.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.: Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.: Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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People age even when you're not looking.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 07-30-08
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Health is not simply the absence of sickness.: Hannah Green
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
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