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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.: Sir Robert Hutchinson
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.: King Whitney Jr.
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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.: Jimmy Buffett
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.: Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
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America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, December 6, 1911
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.: Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.: Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
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Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.: Dr. David M. Burns
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
They always talk who never think.: Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.: John Tudor
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