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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.: Richard Lewis
Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.: Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.: Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.: Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
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Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce Plugs In, 07-12-06
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.: M. F. K. Fisher
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.: A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.: Paulette Bates Alden, 'Legacies,' Feeding the Eagles, 1988
Feel the fear and do it anyway.: Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988
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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.: Mary MacCracken
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