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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.: Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Our envy of others devours us most of all.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, October 2002
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!: Amy Tan (1952 - )
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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.: David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Measure for Measure'
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.: Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946), Penrod (1914)
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.: Edna Buchanan
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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