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Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.: Rita Mae Brown
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.: Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
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Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.: Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), Diary in Exile (1959)
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.: Denzel Washington (1954 - )
We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
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If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.: Joseph Farrell
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.: Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.: Alice Hoffman, 'Here on Earth'
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.: Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)
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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)