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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.: L. L. Henderson
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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.: Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991
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It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.: William Arthur Wood
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.: Anatole Broyard
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Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Interview, April 30, 1978
Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.: Unknown
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!: R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.: Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
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A problem isn’t a problem until it actually happens.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.: Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Beauty"
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