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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.: Jean Nidetch
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.: Frederick William Robertson
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.: Vernon Howard
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.: Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
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To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.: Alexis Carrel (1873 - 1944)
Don't let the bastards grind you down.: General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883 - 1946), Motto
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.": Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.: J. G. Holland
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I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.: Margo Kaufman
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
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When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.: Anonymous
You try to give away what you want yourself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.: Henry Winkler (1945 - )