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You create your opportunities by asking for them.: Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05
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I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!: Amy Tan (1952 - )
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Careful. We don't want to learn from this.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), "Calvin and Hobbes"
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.: Spike Milligan
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Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.: Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
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If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me: Jimmy Buffett, Song Title
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.: Martin Fraquhar Tupper
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.: Edward Chapin