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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.: Sarah Ban Breathnach
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.: Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Atlantic Monthly, January 1869
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The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.: Sir Frederick G. Banting (1891 - 1941)
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'
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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.: Thomas Szasz
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.: Garry Trudeau (1948 - )
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.: Alfred A. Montapert
It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.: Bill Hicks
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.: Cheryl Tiegs (1947 - ), O Magazine, May 2004
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
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