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The unspoken word never does harm.: Kossuth
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.: John Lithgow
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.: Ellen Metcalf
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The future is much like the present, only longer.: Dan Quisenberry
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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mister Sandman, 1994
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.: Arthur Brisbane
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.: Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.: David Sedaris
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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