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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.: Albert Pine
'If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.: Jewish Proverb
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.: Alanis Morissette (1974 - ), Reader's Digest, March 2000
Trade your secrets and become who you are.: Frank Warren, PostSecret, 09-06-08
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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You try to give away what you want yourself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.: Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996
Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.: William Arthur Wood
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.: Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.: George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"