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To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.: Berton Averre
I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.: Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 'The Strenuous Life,' 1900
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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
I couldn’t kill myself, couldn’t let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments they’d changed their minds, but there was no boulder to grab on to.: Suzanne Young, The Program. 2013
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Trust one who has gone through it.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), The Aeneid
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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.: Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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A problem isn’t a problem until it actually happens.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.: May Sarton
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.: Jose Simon
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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