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I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.: Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.: Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.: Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
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You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.: Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), 300 B.C.
Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.: Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD)
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.: Mike Myers
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.: Peter Minard
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.: Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.: Doug Larson
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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.: Buck Henry
Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.: Unknown
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)