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I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.: Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.: Franklin P. Jones
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.: David Russell
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875
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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.: Marguerite de Valois
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.: Bill Clinton (1946 - ), announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.: Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)
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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.: Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory