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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.: May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.: Napoleon Hill
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I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.: Bob Edwards
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.: Leon Tec, M.D.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook
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When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.: Whoopi Goldberg
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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.: Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.: Robert Orben
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There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), (attributed)
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.: Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'
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