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You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05
I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
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Amy Tan (1952 - )
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
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Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
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Bill Watterson (1958 - ), "Calvin and Hobbes"
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
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Spike Milligan
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
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Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
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Jimmy Buffett, Song Title
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
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Edward Chapin
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