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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.: Alice Walker (1944 - )
The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
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So many people miss out on true talent because they can’t get past a look. At the end of the day, losing weight was easy, but finding talent? Now that’s hard.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.: Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.: Joseph Rickaby
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.: Norman Douglas
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
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Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.: Howard Scott (1926 - )
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader's Digest, 1979
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.: Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)