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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.: Annie Lennox
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.: George Sand (1804 - 1876)
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We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.: Cullen Hightower
Man always gets less than he demands from life.: Jack London (1876 - 1916), The People of the Abyss
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2004
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.: Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.: Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.: Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.: P. D. James
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The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 09-17-08
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I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.: Margaret Cho, I'm The One That I Want, 1999