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Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.: Arthur Brisbane
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.: Marian Evans
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.: Lech Walesa (1943 - )
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Never answer a critic, unless he's right.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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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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Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.: Salma Hayek
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850), Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.: Sidney J. Harris
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
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The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.: Tony Blair (1953 - )