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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.: Alan Paton (1903 - 1988)
See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
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Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.: Phil Jackson
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.: Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.: Ann Richards
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.: Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!: Laurie Anderson