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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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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)
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.: Colette (1873 - 1954)
I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.: Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973)
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I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking.: Joyce Grenfell
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.: Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
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Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.: Miriam Makeba, O Magazine, October 2003
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This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005), O Magazine, September 2003
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Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
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I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...: Joan Didion (1934 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.: Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
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