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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.: Antonia Brenner
Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.: Mogens Jallberg
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I am at two with nature.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.: Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961), quoted Washingtonian, November 1978
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One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), L'Envoi, 1882
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.: Ellen DeGeneres