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There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.: Cullen Hightower
The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.: Martin Myers
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.: Alan Alda (1936 - )
The family is the country of the heart.: Giuseppe Mazzini (1805 - 1872)
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Guilt is helpful only when it keeps us acting in line with our beliefs and morals. Otherwise, it creates needless suffering.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.: Japanese Proverb
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
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After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.: Unknown
This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.: Colleen Wainwright, communicatrix, 03-23-2006
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At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'