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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
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Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
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Peter de Vries
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
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Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996)
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives,' Thoughts and Meditations, 1960
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
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Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
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Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
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Henrik Tikkanen
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
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Rabbi Harold Kushner
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.
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Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
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Anna Jameson
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Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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