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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.: John Updike (1932 - )
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Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.: Victoria Holt
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
Our great weariness comes from work not done.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
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Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.: George Dennison Prentice
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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.: Mignon McLaughlin
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.: William James (1842 - 1910)
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.': William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.: William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
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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)
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.: Alvin Toffler
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.: Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.: Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.: John Kord Lagemann