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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
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The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.: From "Taxi"
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I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.: Antonia Brenner
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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The unspoken word never does harm.: Kossuth
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.: Professor Irwin Corey (1914 - )
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.: William Arthur Ward
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
Why be a man when you can be a success?: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.: Mickey Friedman
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), letter to his godson, December 18, 1765