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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.: Ward Cleaver
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Letter to her brother, 1894
An optimist is the human personification of spring.: Susan J. Bissonette
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Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.: Jarvis Klem
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.: Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.: Rodin (1840 - 1917)
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.: Robert Fripp
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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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The best mirror is an old friend.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633), 1651
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.: Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.: Phyllis Diller
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.: Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
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The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.: William Hutton
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.: George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)