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A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.: Barry Neil Kaufman
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.: Christopher Hampton
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Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.: Toni Cade Bambara
That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.: May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004
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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.: George Iles
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Health is not valued till sickness comes.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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