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We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.: Kanye West
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, July 2003
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.: Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.: Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
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For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.: Ingrid Bengis
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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 10-26-07
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
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