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Life is too short for traffic.
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Dan Bellack
We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
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Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
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George Sheehan
Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome.
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Marion Parker
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
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Brendan Francis
There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli.
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Tish Grier, love and sex and dreams, 04-15-06
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
Success only hurts the first time.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.
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Dr. Ana M Guzman
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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