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[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.: Marge Piercy
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Innocents Abroad
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.: Peter McArthur
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
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Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.: Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 1
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?: Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.: Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
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I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.: John Gotti
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.: Robertson Davies
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.: Emile Chartier
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
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