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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.: Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)
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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.: Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.: Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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How could it be? She watched, observed, reflected, and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude or of resignation only. A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.: Lee Entrekin
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.: Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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Stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.: Vernon Howard
Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.: Elizabeth David
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.: Lillian Carter, in her 80s
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