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Truth is what stands the test of experience.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.: Swedish Proverb
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An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.: Bill Vaughan
It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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A little drama wins more friends than boring.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour, 2004
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Incidentals (1907)
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It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.: Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
Love can be sordid only if you work at it.: Brooke McEldowney, 9 Chickweed Lane, 05-10-2006
The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.: Indian Proverb
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