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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
1. Never tell everything at once.: Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.: Rabbinical Saying
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.: Norman Fischer
Death likes it when you play hard to get.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 09-20-12
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
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Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.: Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.: Emile Chartier
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.: John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century
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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.: Baltasar Gracian
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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