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Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.: Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.: Bobcat Goldthwaite
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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.: Shakti Gawain
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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.: Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.: Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.: Diana Nyad
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