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Hope is only the love of life.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.: Robertson Davies
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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.: Elmer G. Letterman
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Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
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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Discretion is not the better part of biography.: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.: Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
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The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.: Inigo DeLeon
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.: Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.: Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
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This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine