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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.: Tom Masson
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.: Barry LePatner
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Make a decision, even if it's wrong.: Jarvis Klem
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
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I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.: Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959)
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
Blame someone else and get on with your life.: Alan Woods
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.: Robertson Davies
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
Oh for a book and a shady nook...: John Wilson (1785 - 1854)
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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
Charity sees the need not the cause.: German Proverb
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.: Anwar el-Sadat (1918 - 1981)
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.: Michael Pritchard
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To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.: Berton Averre
Nothing in life is promised except death.: Kanye West