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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Marian Evans
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
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Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
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Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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Bishop Richard Cumberland
I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get. But, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.
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Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
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Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.
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Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002
Our lives teach us who we are.
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Salman Rushdie (1947 - )
Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.
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Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10-06-05
Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.
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Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
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Richard Rybolt
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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