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Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.
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Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10-06-05
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
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George Jessel
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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
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Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
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Julia Sorel
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.
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Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
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William Cecil Burleigh
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
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Clive Barnes
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
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Vernon Sanders Law
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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
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Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967)
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
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My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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Trieu Thi Trinh
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004
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The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
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Robert Jackson
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
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John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
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Shirley MacLaine (1934 - )
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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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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