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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
We don't always get to choose what we love.: Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
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It is easier to stay out than get out.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.: William Wrigley Jr. (1861 - 1932)
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Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.: Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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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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Sometimes people are on the outside looking in because they don’t have any money. But sometimes people are on the outside looking in because they don’t have any class.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant blog, 09-12-06
In a mad world only the mad are sane.: Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
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So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.: Brenda Ueland
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Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.: Spanish Proverb
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The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.: Thomas Guthrie
It has all been very interesting.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.: John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century
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Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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