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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.: Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004)
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.: David Letterman (1947 - )
Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101, 1991
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Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration.: Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.: Steve Martin (1945 - )
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.: Matthias, Correction Weblog, 11-01-03
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.: Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.: Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.: Clementine Paddleford