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Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.: Swedish Proverb
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
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You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.: Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957), on being phoned at 10:00 AM
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
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Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me: Jimmy Buffett, Song Title
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.: Francis Maitland Balfour
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.: Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.: Professor Irwin Corey (1914 - )
My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.: Demetri Martin
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.: Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
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Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
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The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004