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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.: Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
When you're a team of one, you're always captain.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.: Robert Fritz
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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Always be a little kinder than necessary.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.: Beryl Pfizer
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.: Cherrie Moraga
History never looks like history when you are living through it.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.: Dutch Proverb
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
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