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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.: Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
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Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.: Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.: Edward Chapin
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.: Philip Gold, Doctors: Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes 2005 Calendar
I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.: Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.: Unknown
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.: T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace, Penny and Aggie, 09-12-05
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Answers to Nine Questions"
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.: George Tooker
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.: Martha Burgess, Founder, Theatre Techniques for Business People