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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.: Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
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When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.: Cherrie Moraga
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.: Gail Godwin
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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.: Hugh Prather
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.: Harold B. Lee (1899 - 1973)
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.: Liberace (1919 - 1987)
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.: Denzel Washington (1954 - )
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
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You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.: Lydia M. Child
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.: Rod Steiger
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), New Hampshire Democratic Primary Speech, 01-08-08
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We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.: Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
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Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.: Marguerite de Valois