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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I
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Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 27, 2003
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Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.: Erica Jong
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'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?' 'Well, that would be a start.': Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.: Paxton Hood
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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.: Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.: Nancy Friday
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936
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...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.: Mary Stewart
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.: Joan Klempner
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.: Jack Layton, Letter to Canada, 08-20-2011
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
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The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637