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We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.: Ethel Barrett
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness.: Ann Faraday
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, December 6, 1911
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.: Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.: Bobcat Goldthwaite
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Even the best of friends need time apart.: Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09-09-05
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), (Dear Abby)
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Black Cottage
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.: Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)