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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course.": Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009
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All television is children's television.: Richard P. Adler
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If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.: Marvin Minsky
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She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.: Kate Chopin
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.: Stuart's Law of Retroaction
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.: Jeff Valdez
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory.: Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam, 08-30-13
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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