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We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.: Jeffrey Rowland, Sound! 12-22-05
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.: George Sheehan
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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.: Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
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Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.: John Lithgow
Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.: Percy Cerutty
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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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Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.: Meister Eckhart
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He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.: Don Juan Manuel (1282 - 1349)
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There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 10, 08-22-04
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Self-Dependence'
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)