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Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.: Chinese Proverb
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.: Alan Bennett
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.: Catherine de Hueck
The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.: Mike Tatum, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
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The price of greatness is responsibility.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.: Robert Orben
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.: Rebecca Beard
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.: Diane Ackerman
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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.: Lucille S. Harper
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.: Nancy Friday
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.: Dr. David M. Burns
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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.: Lorraine Anderson
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No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.: Solomon Short
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