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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.: Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.: Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The only cure for grief is action.: George Henry Lewes
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.: Tom Thompson
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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.: Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831)
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.: Peter McWilliams
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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All the world's a cage.: Jeanne Phillips
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Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.: Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D Game Over