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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.: Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.: Janet Long
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We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.: John Hope Franklin
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.: Ann Richards
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"
When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.: Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.: Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), 1873
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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.: Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.: Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
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I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.: Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933)
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.: Norman Douglas
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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.: Indian Proverb
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Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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