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Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.: Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), 'Jugurthine War,' 41 B.C.
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I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.: Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
It is only the first step that is difficult.: Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.: John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.: Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860
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A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!: R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.: Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
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The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.: Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.: Brendan Francis
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
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