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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.: Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
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May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.: Sara June Parker
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
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
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952
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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.: William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922), Afoot in England, 1909
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I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.: Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.: Jane Wagner
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.: William James (1842 - 1910)
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
People with too much power aren’t usually the ones harmed by their mistakes.: Heather Fawcett, Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter, 2026
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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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In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives,' Thoughts and Meditations, 1960
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002