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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.: Rita Mae Brown
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Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 06-29-06
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.: Kevin Bacon, People, 06-13-2011
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And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.: Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"
If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.: James Gordon, M.D.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Touch your customer, and you're halfway there.: Estee Lauder
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.: Natalie Goldberg
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.: Dr. Thomas Dooley
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.: Margaret Halsey