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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.: Rita Rudner
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.: John Hope Franklin
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.: Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)
Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.: Robert Veninga
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.: Conan O'Brien, Final Tonight Show Speech, 2010
Hold a true friend with both hands.: Nigerian Proverb
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
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I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.: Robert Bloch (1917 - 1994)
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), lecture 1854
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.: The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.: Nancy White, Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide, SXSW 2006