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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
The best way out is always through.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.: Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won't. It's that simple.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.: John M. Ford
It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.: Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)
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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...: Trieu Thi Trinh
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.: Harold Bloom (1930 - )
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.: Bayard Taylor
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
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?: Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.: Sidney J. Harris
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101, 1991
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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )