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The truth is more important than the facts.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled.: Aimee Mullins, Ted Conference, How My Legs Give Me Super-Powers, February 2009
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.: Carlos Castaneda
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.: William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
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The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.: Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000)
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.: Francis Maitland Balfour
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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
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We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
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Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Maybe it was only a second of your time, but you need to treasure life, every second.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.: Jim Horning
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My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.': Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.: Edna Buchanan