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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/22/89
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.: Thomas Heatherwick, TED, Building the Seed Cathedral, March 2011
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.: Catherine de Hueck
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
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Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Tweek Vs. Craig, 1999
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05
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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)