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I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.: Bible, Old Testament
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If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough: Mario Andretti (1940 - )
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.: Gene Fowler
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.: Leo Burnett
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?: George Price
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Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.: John Lancaster Spalding
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Charity sees the need not the cause.: German Proverb
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, October 2002
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.: Spanish Proverb
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You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.: Elizabeth Stone
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)