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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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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
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.: Diane Ackerman
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
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Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.: Unknown
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.: Richard Lewis
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.: Clive Barnes
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
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If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?: Harry Shearer
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