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Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.: Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
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You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.: King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
Health is not valued till sickness comes.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.: Thich Nhat Hanh
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.: Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003
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[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.: Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.: Evelyn Underhill