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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit.: McCallister Dodds
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.: Chris Evert (1954 - )
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.: Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
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Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.: Dr. Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990)
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!: Louise Bogan
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.: Jonathan Kozol
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.: Anonymous
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Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.: Sir Richard Steele
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05
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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.: Thomas Tusser, 1524
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
The only way to have a friend is to be one.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Friends are born, not made.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you're telling them to "die in a hole.": Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...': Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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