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I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.: Howard Newton
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101, 1991
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.: Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.: Sir William Drummond
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
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The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.: Inigo DeLeon
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In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late.: Alison Headley, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006
Some people make headlines while others make history.: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
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A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.: Neil Gaiman, Sandman
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.: Doris Day (1924 - )
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.: Walter Goodman
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Food is the most primitive form of comfort.: Sheila Graham
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!: Amy Tan (1952 - )
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