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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.: Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.: Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.: Howard Thurman
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.: Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), O Magazine, May 2004
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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.: Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.: A. J. Kitt
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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I grow more intense as I age.: Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003
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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
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There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.: Anonymous
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