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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.: Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.: Phyllis Diller
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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.: George Tooker
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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.: Edward Chapin
We can’t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.: William Bridges
Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.: Louis Schwartzberg, Marie Curie, 2011
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When things are at their worst I find something always happens.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
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Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
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To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
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In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), lecture 1854
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