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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.: Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005
Strive for excellence, not perfection.: H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.: Margaret Wheatley
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.: James Gordon, M.D.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 8, 08-22-04
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.: John Lehman (1942 - ), Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
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