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No man ever listened himself out of a job.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.: Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
He who would travel happily must travel light.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
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A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.: H. Mathews
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.: Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973), O Magazine, October 2003
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.: Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.: Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.: Bill Vaughan
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