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When you understand that your feelings are triggered by what you think about an event and not by the event itself, you gain a measure of control. Although you cannot control the things (events) that happen to you, or change your feelings (after all, you feel the way you feel), you can change your thoughts. A change in thoughts often radically alters your feelings.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.: Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly
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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.: Wall Street Proverb
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.: Benjamin H. Brewster (1816 - 1888)
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.: Jessie Sampter
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Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.: Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.: Krishnamurti
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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Honor does not have to be defended.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), inaugural address, January 20, 1961