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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971), No One Here Gets Out Alive
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.: Corra Harris
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.: Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.: Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle
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What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.: Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
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Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tempest'
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' Act III, scene ii
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.: Lenore Hershey
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), (attributed)
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You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.: Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.: Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.: William Arthur Ward