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The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.: Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
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I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.: Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988)
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.: David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)
Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.: Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-26-05
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.: Neil Gaiman, Sandman
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.: Ernie Kovacs
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.: Catherine de Hueck
I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.: King Farouk of Egypt (1920 - 1965), 1948
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.: Dee Hock
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.: Marian Evans
I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
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