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Some people make headlines while others make history.: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.: Shakti Gawain
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.: Mary Daly
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If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.: Mo Udall
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04
It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.: Suze Orman, O Magazine, February 2003
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.: James Madison (1751 - 1836)
What I learned from Weight Watchers is that food was meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If we are using it for any other reasons, it is time to take a step back and ask ourselves what’s up.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), in Good Housekeeping
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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.: Mel Brooks (1926 - )
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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