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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.: Scott Adams (1957 - )
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.: Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.: Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.: Max Frisch
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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But be, as you have been, my happiness...: Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), The Arm of the Starfish, 1965
It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
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Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008