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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.: Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.: Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.: Aphra Behn
The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve 'made it'.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31. Remain Frugal., 08-22-04
I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 7. Keep your day job., 08-22-04
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.: Ursula K. LeGuin
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I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.: Dale Carnegie
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Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.: Felicia Day, The Washington Post, 04-03-12
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The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.: William Hutton
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In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.: Mogens Jallberg
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