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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Jean Houston
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
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Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), (Dear Abby)
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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Cullen Hightower
Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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Professor Irwin Corey (1914 - )
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
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Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), quoted in Observer, March 29 1981
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
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Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
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Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.
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Marita Bonner
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
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Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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Anonymous
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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