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What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.: Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen Show, 05-17-13
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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Life is a risk.: Diane Von Furstenberg
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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05
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If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.: Robert Fritz
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How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.: Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Happy Death
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.: Max L. Forman
Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)