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Some things have to be believed to be seen.: Ralph Hodgson, on ESP
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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.: Unknown
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.: Earl Warren (1891 - 1974)
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.: Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Never give a child a sword.: Latin Proverb
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.: John Wilmot
Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 2, 08-22-04
There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.: Stuart's Law of Retroaction
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Hope is necessary in every condition.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008