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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.: Sidney J. Harris
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When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.: Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009
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It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971), No One Here Gets Out Alive
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.: Edward Chapin
The covers of this book are too far apart.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
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The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.: Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.: Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.: Martha Burgess, Founder, Theatre Techniques for Business People
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.: Arnold Bennett
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