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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.: Diana Spencer
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.: Lydia M. Child
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.: Joseph Chilton Pearce
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.: George Bush (1924 - )
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Walking is also an ambulation of mind.: Gretel Ehrlich
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.: Jean Kerr
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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.: Charles Buxton
I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.: Robert A. Ward
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
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Food is our common ground, a universal experience.: James Beard
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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.: Dean Martin
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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Dialogue, XIV, "Le Chapon et la Poularde" (1766)
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.: Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
Who begins too much accomplishes little.: German Proverb
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)