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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.: Unknown
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia
A schedule defends from chaos and whim.: Annie Dillard
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
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What happens when the future has come and gone?: Robert Half
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.: Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
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If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.: Ausonius
Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.: Bobby Knight (1940 - )
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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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