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Sometimes ya gotta do stuff 'cause it's expected of ya, not 'cause of anything else.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.: George Moore
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If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.: John Heywood (1497 - 1580)
It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.: Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.: Leona Helmsly
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.: Jose Marti
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Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.: Mignon McLaughlin
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, October 14, 2003
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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
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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
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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