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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
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Harriet Lerner
Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else."
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Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.
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Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991
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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
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A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
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George Sheehan
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The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.
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Wayne Dyer
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
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Dan Zadra
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
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Jonathan Winters
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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Owen Wister, The Virginian, Chapter 13, 1929
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
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The Belzer Rabbi
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
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Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
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Victoria Holt
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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