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When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 12, 2003
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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.: Scott Adams (1957 - )
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
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First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.: Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.: Bob Wells
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.: Michael Flatley, (Lord of the Dance) quoted by Eric Celeste
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Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.: Robert Orben
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.: Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
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Babies are cool, until you've done everything to do with 'em and you get bored. That's why T.V. shows about babies don't last more than a year.: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Alan Kirschenbaum, Raising Hope, Burt Rocks, November 30, 2010
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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.: Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.: Baltasar Gracian
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.: Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
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