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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Atlantic Monthly, January 1869
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.: Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
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The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...: Bell Hooks
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.: Alanis Morissette (1974 - ), Reader's Digest, March 2000
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.: Quentin Crisp
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.: Okakura Kakuzo
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.: Bill Gates (1955 - )
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
The secret of being boring is to say everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.: Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.: Edward Shepherd Mead
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.: Daniel Raeburn, The New Yorker, 05-01-2006
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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.: Marvin Minsky
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