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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey", 1950
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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.: Quentin Crisp
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.: Napoleon Hill
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.: George Melton
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.: Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.: Dan McKinnon
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.: Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?: Dolores Huerta
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Exit, pursued by a bear.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Stage direction in "The Winter's Tale"
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.
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.: I. F. Stone (1907 - 1989)