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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
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Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
'Cringe' is what people who can't feel things call feelings.: John Green (1977 - ), Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
The longest journey is the journey inward.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
I would rather be taken advantage of now and again than go through life seeing monsters everywhere.: Heather Fawcett, Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter, 2026
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I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.: Queen Juliana (1909 - 2004), of the Netherlands
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.: Bella Abzug (1920 - )
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
Frugality without creativity is deprivation.: Amy Dacyczyn
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.: Sam Ewing
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I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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