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There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.: Robert Byrne
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06-11-04
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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), in her Nobel lecture
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005), O Magazine, September 2003
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I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.: Elayne Boosler
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973)
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
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If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.: Mickey Mantle (1931 - 1995), (attributed)
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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People age even when you're not looking.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 07-30-08
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The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 7. Keep your day job., 08-22-04
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.: Mark Jenkins, "To Timbuktu"
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.: Ellen Glasglow
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.: Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.: Latin Proverb
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