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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.: Will Durst
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I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.: Robert Bloch (1917 - 1994)
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.: Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.: Shakti Gawain
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I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.': Unknown
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.: Dale Carnegie
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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve 'made it'.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31. Remain Frugal., 08-22-04
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.: W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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I'm a born-again atheist.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.: Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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