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A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.: Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
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The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.: Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.: Ed Greenwood
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.: David Frost
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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.: Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.: Ramsay Clark
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark, 1915
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.: Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.: Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
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People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.: James Gordon, M.D.
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