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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.: Clarence Thomas (1948 - )
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
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There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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I like life. It's something to do.: Ronnie Shakes
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.: Jean Shinoda Bolen
The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Innocents Abroad
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You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.: Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.: Sharon Salzberg
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.: Henry Allen
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