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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.: George Shelley
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.: Baltasar Gracian
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)
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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.: Brooke McEldowney, Pibgorn commentary, 03-31-05
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Children will adapt to nearly any rule or routine as long as it is consistently enforced within that particular household.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.: Jane Howard, "Families"
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I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.: Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Cat GIF Critique, 04-26-13
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.: Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.: Colin Powell (1937 - )
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.: Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)