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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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George Saunders, last words
Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
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Marchioness Townsend
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
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George Sheehan
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
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Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
Each body has its art...
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.
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Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
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Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.
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Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Energy is eternal delight.
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William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Walking is man's best medicine.
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Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916), from his essay about the rules of writing
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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John Milton (1608 - 1674)
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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