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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.: Jodie Foster (1962 - )
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.: Belle Livingstone
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.: Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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Good food ends with good talk.: Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
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This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.: Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance
The things you own end up owning you.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.: Frantz Fanon
That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got.: Allan Heinberg, Sex and the City, A 'Vogue' Idea, 2002
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1
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