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[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.: Henry Timrod
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I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 06-23-09
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.: Joel Hawes
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
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To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .: Unknown
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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks, 1944
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.: Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - )
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.: George Sand (1804 - 1876)
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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)