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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.: Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
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The unspoken word never does harm.: Kossuth
We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.: Eli Attie, House M.D., Parents, 11-14-2011
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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.: Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.: Thomas J. Watson
You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.: Vernon Howard
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.: Jane E. Brody
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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A minute's success pays the failure of years.: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.: Lawrence Bixby
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.: Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)
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Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
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.: King Whitney Jr.
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The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)