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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.: Eudora Welty (1909 - )
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.: William Bridges
Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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Now is the time for all good men to come to.: Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973), "Pogo" (comic strip)
The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.: Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.: Claud Cockburn (1904 - 1981)
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), New Hampshire Democratic Primary Speech, 01-08-08
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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.: Rita Rudner
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )