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And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.: Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.: Bessie A. Stanley
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.: Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.: John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.: Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 10-18-05
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The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...: Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
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The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.: John Lilly
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Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875
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Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.: Sue Patton Thoele
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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