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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.: Mary Daly
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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.: Robert W. Sarnoff
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Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.: Gordon Atkinson, weblog, 04-29-04
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.: Anonymous
Those whom we support hold us up in life.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.: John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Life itself is a quotation.: Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.: Vernon Sanders Law
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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.: Robertson Davies
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.: Jean Houston
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Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.: Native American Proverb
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There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.: Roger van der Heide, TED: Why Light Needs Darkness, 2011
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).: Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson