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A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.: Philip Gold, Doctors: Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes 2005 Calendar
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.: Spanish Proverb
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Man is what he believes.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.: Anonymous
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.: Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.: Sarah Ban Breathnach
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.: Chinese Proverb
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
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The best mirror is an old friend.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633), 1651
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.: Ed Norton, Entertainment Weekly