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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.: Ecclesiastes
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.: Robert Orben
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Answers to Nine Questions"
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.: Alec Bourne
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Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.: Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003
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What you are is a question only you can answer.: Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.: Robert Anthony
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.: Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.: Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990