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People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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The future will be better tomorrow.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
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My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.: Josephine demott Robinson, O Magazine, December 2003
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.: Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.: Phyllis Diller
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Love truth, and pardon error.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
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Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.: Frank Thomas, Disney Animator, When asked to give advice to young animators
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I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.: Robert A. Ward
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.': Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.: Richard Diran
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.: Sir Edward Appleton (1892 - 1965)
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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932
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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.: Mortimer Adler