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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), 1897
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Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.: L. M. Boyd
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.: Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.: Eckhart Tolle
It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.: William Arthur Ward
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765)