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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.: H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.: Robin Norwood
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.: Sidney J. Harris
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'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.: George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
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I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.: David Sedaris
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.: An English Professor, Ohio University
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.: Baltasar Gracian
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On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
We are who people think we are.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
Art has never been made while thinking of art.: Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
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The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.: Ellen Glasglow
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.: Joe E. Lewis
The crowd gives the leader new strength.: Evenius
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)