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You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.: Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)
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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.: Frank Crane
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.: Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.: Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.: Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.: Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly
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Success only hurts the first time.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.: Peter De Vries, "The Mackerel Plaza," 1958
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.: Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008