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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), 1897
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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
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A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.: Wayne Dyer
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.: Percy Cerutty
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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Free advice is worth the price.: Robert Half
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.: Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
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Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.: Ellen DeGeneres
If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.: Nadine Stair
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.: Shirley Trusty Corey
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.: A. Sachs
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