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God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.: Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.: Mike Tatum, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
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In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.: Rabbi Seymour Siegel
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Don't let the bastards grind you down.: General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883 - 1946), Motto
[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
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One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.: Quentin Crisp
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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Be not slow to visit the sick.: Ecclesiastes
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All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.: John Berry, Flight of White Crows
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953