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The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.: 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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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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Life is just a bowl of pits.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 16. The world is changing. , 08-22-04
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.: Henry J. Tillman
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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.: Langston Coleman
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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.: Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.: Gloria Naylor
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Never spend your money before you have it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Success only hurts the first time.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.: Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.: Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876)
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.: Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)