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There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.: Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
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In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.: Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled.: Aimee Mullins, Ted Conference, How My Legs Give Me Super-Powers, February 2009
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.: Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
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They can conquer who believe they can.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
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Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 9, 08-22-04
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.: Mary Pettibone Poole
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Don’t be afraid of the answers. Be afraid of not asking the questions.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.: J. S. Bryan
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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"