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Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.: Kathleen Casey Theisen
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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It's not having what you want It's wanting what you've got.: Sheryl Crow, Soak Up The Sun
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.: Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988), 1980
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.: Ancient Proverb
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The way we see the problem is the problem.: Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.: Cullen Hightower
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And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.: Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-29-06
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.: Henrik Tikkanen
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.: Joseph Farrell
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