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No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.: Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
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The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), Dhammapada
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.: Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.: P. D. James
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The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.: Vidal Sassoon
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.: Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.: Cynthia Ozick
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.: Cheryl Tiegs (1947 - ), O Magazine, May 2004
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The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.: Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
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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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It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.: Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.: William Wirt (1772 - 1834)
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Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Casting Call, 10-21-13
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