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Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.: Willis Player
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
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The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.: Charlotte-Catherine
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.: John M. Ford
Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.: Pete Seeger
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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.: David Rockefeller (1915 - )
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I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.: Dr. Ana M Guzman
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.: Ron Nesen
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.: Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks, 1944
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1