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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.: Alvin Toffler
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.: Shakti Gawain
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.: Freya Madeline Stark
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.: Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
The secret to success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.: John Churton Collins
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Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.: Alfred A. Montapert
There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.: Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
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I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), quoted by Susan Litwin in 'TV Guide'
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)