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The great god Ra whose shrine once covered acres Is filler now for crossword-puzzle makers.: Keith Preston
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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)
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), in her Nobel lecture
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.: Sheila Graham
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), (attributed)
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.: Unknown
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I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), The Last Asset, 1904
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.": Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.: Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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