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Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.: Richard Rybolt
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He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.: Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.: Gail Godwin
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What if this weren't a hypothetical question?: Unknown
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.: Hobart Brown
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.: John M. Ford
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.: Bible, Old Testament
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.: Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.: Cherrie Moraga
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.: W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
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We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
Every artist was first an amateur.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.: William Wirt (1772 - 1834)
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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