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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.: G. E. Lessing (1729 - 1781)
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.: Robert Half
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.: De La Lastra's Law
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.: Al Batt, in National Enquirer
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.: Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
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Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003