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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them.: Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.: Mary MacCracken
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Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.: Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003
The ancestor of every action is a thought.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) Act III
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.: Japanese Proverb
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Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.: Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825 - 1921)
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A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.: Henry Morgan
All appears to change when we change.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Live forever or die in the attempt.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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