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Every crowd has a silver lining.: Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.: Robbie Gass
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Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.: Lin Yutang
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 07-12-09
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980), In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.: Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
I am open to receive with every breath I breathe.: Michael Sun
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.: Joel Hawes
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.: Rita Mae Brown
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.: Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
Art has never been made while thinking of art.: Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
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