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I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum.
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Hank Green
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.
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Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
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Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
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Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
You're never too old to become younger.
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Mae West (1892 - 1980)
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.
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April Foiles
A smiling face is half the meal.
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Latvian Proverb
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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Joan Baez (1941 - )
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
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Kenneth Tynan
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
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The Dhammapada
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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