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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.: Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
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
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.: Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
Living in a vacuum sucks.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.: Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970), on refusing Western economic assistance, 'Realites,' January 20, 1969
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
Trade your secrets and become who you are.: Frank Warren, PostSecret, 09-06-08
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Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.: Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937)
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.: Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
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I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.: Steven Spielberg
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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