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You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), quoted by Susan Litwin in 'TV Guide'
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.: Edward L. Flom
Even writers need relief from words.: Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
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If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.: Miriam Beard
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You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.: Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
God must become an activity in our consciousness.: Joel S. Goldsmith
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An idea is salvation by imagination.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
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It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.: Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
The way we see the problem is the problem.: Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.: Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
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Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.: Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal