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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.: Vernon Howard
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.: Francis Maitland Balfour
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If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 07-12-09
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Meditations'
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.: Sophy Burnham
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I have read your book and much like it.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.: Charles Luckman
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.: Sylvia Robinson
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it.: Joe Brown and David Brown
War is not nice.: Barbara Bush (1925 - )
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I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.: Brenda Ueland