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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.: George Saunders, last words
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Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.: Marchioness Townsend
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.: George Sheehan
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
Each body has its art...: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
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You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.: Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Energy is eternal delight.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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Walking is man's best medicine.: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), from his essay about the rules of writing
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He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.: John Milton (1608 - 1674)
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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