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He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
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It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.: Sally Kempton
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The pleasure of love is in loving.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.: Robert Byrne
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.: William Bridges
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.: Meryl Streep (1949 - )
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.: Brenda Ueland
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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