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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
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Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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Ramsay Clark
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Benjamin Haydon
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To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965), 1940
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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The average person thinks he isn't.
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Father Larry Lorenzoni
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
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Liberace (1919 - 1987)
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
I always like a good math solution to any love problem.
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Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 1999
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What's done cannot be undone.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
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Ecclesiastes
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Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998
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Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
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Ben Azai, Mishna
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
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Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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