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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.: Joan Didion (1934 - ), "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.: Eric Ambler
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.: Robert Byrne
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.: Jessica Alba
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.: Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.: Bob Thaves, "Frank and Ernest", 1982
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.: Pema Chodron
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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.: Evelle J. Younger
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.: Robert Orben
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