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...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.: Anonymous
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
Life is full of obstacle illusions.: Grant Frazier
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...: Joan Didion (1934 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.: Jim Bishop
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Pick Me! 02-11-09
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Letter to her brother, 1894
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.: William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
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Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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