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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?: Jean Kerr
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.: Christina Baldwin
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.: Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Letter to Nickolas Muray, 12-18-1939
I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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What's done cannot be undone.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.: Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831)
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.: Gretel Ehrlich
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.: Benjamin Haydon
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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you’ll feel alive.: Meri Williams, Talent vs Desire, 05-29-06