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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.: J. K. Rowling
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.: James Carr, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.: Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 07-11-2006
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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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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.: Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.": Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.: Wayne Dyer
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
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