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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.: Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.: Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.: Thomas Tusser, 1524
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May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.: Sara June Parker
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!: Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
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See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo
When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.: Beverly Sills (1929 - )
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.: Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)
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The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...: Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.: Robertson Davies
You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.: Eddie Izzard
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.: Roger Allen
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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.: Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)