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Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 438 B.C.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.: Robin Morgan
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.: Jonathan Kozol
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.: William Congreve (1670 - 1729), The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
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A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.: John Tudor
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Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.: Austin O'Malley
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Things are only impossible until they're not.: Hannah Louise Shearer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, When The Bough Breaks, 1988
Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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I didn't really say everything I said.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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