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It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
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Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.: Carlos A. Urbizo
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.: T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace, Penny and Aggie, 09-12-05
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845), referring to Macaulay
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Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.: Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC)
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.: John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories
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Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.: Roy M. Cohn (1927 - 1986)
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), Vesalius in Zante
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.: Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
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No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.: Doug Larson
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.: Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
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The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.: Senator Dianne Feinstein (1933 - )
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", 1978
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