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Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.: La Fontaine
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!: Charles Swindoll
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.: C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Children should feel loved because they exist, not because they’ve behaved in a certain way.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.: J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.: Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958), on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
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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I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.: Lady Gaga (1986 - ), BBC Breakfast, 04-21-09
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.: Mary Field Belenky, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind, p. 187