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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Letter to her brother, 1894
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.: Ann Richards
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.: Dianne Houston, Take The Lead, 2006
I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 06-23-09
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
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Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.: Rita Rudner
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.: Shirley Temple (1928 - )
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What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.: Doug Larson
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.: Natalie Goldberg
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If you observe a really happy man, you will find... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.: W. Beran Wolfe
Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 12-29-05
The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.: John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success
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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.: Evelyn Underhill
Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.: Leslie Nielsen (1926 - )
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.: Anonymous, Graffito
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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )