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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Innocents Abroad
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Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.: Stella Terrill Mann
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Woe be to him that reads but one book.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
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Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931), The Philosophy of Despair
Babies are cool, until you've done everything to do with 'em and you get bored. That's why T.V. shows about babies don't last more than a year.: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Alan Kirschenbaum, Raising Hope, Burt Rocks, November 30, 2010
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Diluting your product to make it more 'commercial' will just make people like it less.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 21. Selling out is harder than it looks., 08-22-04
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.: Daniel Considine
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.: R. D. Hitchcock
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Man always gets less than he demands from life.: Jack London (1876 - 1916), The People of the Abyss
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.: Peter da Silva
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.: Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
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One must desire something to be alive.: Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.: Willem de Kooning (1904 - )
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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