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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.: Gloria Pitzer, in Reader's Digest, 1979
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.: Alan Kay
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We are who people think we are.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse Five
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.': Frederick L Collins
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.: Peter McArthur
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.: Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?: Harry Shearer
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The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.: Robert Fulghum (1937 - ), It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.: George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
Not going home is already like death.: E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.: Lucille Clifton
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.: Muriel Spark (1918 - )
The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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