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There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003
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How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.: Frank Tyger
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.: Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.: Katharine Whitehorn
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You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 03-26-08
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 16. The world is changing. , 08-22-04
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.: Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990