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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.: Gretel Ehrlich
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.: Noela Evans
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.: James Rippe, M.D.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.: Lane Olinghouse
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Under Western Eyes, 1911
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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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