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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.: Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'
May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.: Sara June Parker
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.: Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977)
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03
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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.: Lucille Clifton
Life is too short for traffic.: Dan Bellack
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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.: William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
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I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.: Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974
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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992
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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, October 14, 2003
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Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.: Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.: William Safire (1929 - )
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of Myself, 1855
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.: John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
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I hate women because they always know where things are.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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