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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.': Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.: Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.: John H. Patterson
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It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.: Thomas K. Mattingly II
If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.: Joe Martin, Mister Boffo
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.: Catherine de Hueck
I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
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Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.: David Frost
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.: Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.: Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003
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When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.: Kathleen A. Sutton
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895
Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.': Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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But be, as you have been, my happiness...: Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)