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It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mister Sandman, 1994
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 11-11-04
You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.: Clementine Paddleford
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.: Lydia M. Child
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If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.: Pierre Gallois
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Man's main task is to give birth to himself.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.: Sue Grafton (1940 - ), 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.: Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
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Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.: Grenville Kleiser
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.: Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love," 1992
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.: Robert Orben
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
When in doubt, tell the truth.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"