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Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), The Courage to Be
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.: Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-04
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
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Careful. We don't want to learn from this.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), "Calvin and Hobbes"
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...: Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.: Edward Chapin
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.: Mother Jones
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.: Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
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Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 1
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.: Robert Bresson
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.: Dianne Houston, Take The Lead, 2006
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.: Jane O'Reilly
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.: Kent Nerburn