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Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.: Latin Proverb
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.: Ausonius
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.: National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.: Sophy Burnham
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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, July 2003
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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.: August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.: Lech Walesa (1943 - )
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.: John Lancaster Spalding
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.: Sidney J. Harris
I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
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I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.: Dr. Ana M Guzman