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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve
I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too.: John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.: Catherine de Hueck
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.: Jean Kerr
Dare to be yourself.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers, 1976
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.: Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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I don't really trust a sane person.: Lyle Alzado (1949 - 1992)
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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.: Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
One man's folly is another man's wife.: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950)
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Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.: Bill Tammeus, in Toronto's National Newspaper, 1991
You don’t have to live your life so that your life is suitable for small talk. Life can be lived in ways that circumnavigate a myriad of colors and landscapes.: Cherie Ve Ard, Technomadia, 04-04-2013
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