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As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.: Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly
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The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.: Ann Richards
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.: Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.: Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
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The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-23-05
He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew.: Rob Sheridan, Mad Love, The Young and The Reckless, 2011
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I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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The unspoken word never does harm.: Kossuth
I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.: Katherine Cebrian
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.: Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Proper Studies", 1927
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
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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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.: James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
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Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.': Dan Parker
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.: Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.: Czech Proverb
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Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.: Anonymous
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