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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.: Lucille Clifton
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'The Spectator'
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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.: Henry C. Link
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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), Against Interpretation, 1966
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.: Unknown
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Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.: Lin Yutang
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.: Doug Larson