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There are too many people, and too few human beings.: Robert Zend
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.: Nicholas Butler (1862 - 1947)
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?': Terry Pratchett, Soul Music, page 151
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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.: Colette (1873 - 1954), Chance Acquaintances, 1952
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Energy is eternal delight.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
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You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.: Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.: Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.: John Wooden (1910 - )
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.: Cullen Hightower
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.: Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.: Sydney J. Harris
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