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We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.: Susan Jeffers
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.: Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
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Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.: Swedish Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.: Julius Rosenwald (1862 - 1932)
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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.: Robbie Gass
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Each body has its art...: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Les Enfants Terribles
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.: Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
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Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250: Harper's Index, October 1989
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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.: Italian Proverb
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.: John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories
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Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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