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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.: Lorraine Anderson
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If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.: Ann Richards
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.: David McCullough (1933 - )
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"
Never confuse movement with action.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.: Phyllis Diller
Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.: Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968), 'No Man Is an Island'
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
I am never afraid of what I know.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Stones of Venice, 1880
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.: Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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