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Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
Storms make oaks take deeper root.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.: Marie De France, 12th Century
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.: Whitney Young (1921 - 1971)
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.: Mickey Mouse (1928 - )
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
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You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.: Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley, 1963
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.: Erica Jong
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Never eat more than you can lift.: Miss Piggy
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.: Larry Gelbart
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There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.: Carlos A. Urbizo
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.: Franklin P. Jones
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250: Harper's Index, October 1989
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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840
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