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By the time we've made it, we've had it.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945), (attributed)
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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.: Shakti Gawain
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.: Henry Cate VII
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The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.: Gail Pool
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.: Bayard Taylor
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.: Japanese Proverb
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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
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Children should feel loved because they exist, not because they’ve behaved in a certain way.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly adopted child brings out submerged feelings or behavior in his parents that make them dislike themselves. This can be such a severe blow to their self- esteem that they must eradicate the cause of their distress. Sometimes the only way that parents are able to do that is by returning the child.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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