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I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
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Jean Shinoda Bolen
Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
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Amy Dacyczyn
[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.
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Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
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Wall Street Proverb
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
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King Whitney Jr.
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.
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Dorothy Draper
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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John Cage (1912 - 1992)
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts as our own, but they probably are.
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James Harvey Robinson
There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
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Thomas Pickering (1931 - )
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
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Catherine de Hueck
Taking responsibility gives us power and control, because when we recognize the relationship between our choices and their consequences, then the next time we don’t like a consequence we can make a different choice.
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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.
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Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
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Fritz Perls
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
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Shelley Winters (1922 - 2006)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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