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If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.: Dorothee Solle
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.: Donald Trump (1946 - ), Press Conference, February 16, 2017
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.: Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
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We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.: Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Blog
I improve on misquotation.: Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.: Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.: Mary Pettibone Poole
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.: Margo Kaufman
Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
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There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)