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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.: Joseph de Maistre
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.: Scandinavian Proverb
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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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It has all been very interesting.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
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All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.: Ausonius
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.: Clarence E. Hodges
In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943
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Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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