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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.: Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.: Hesketh Pearson
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
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As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.: Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)
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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)
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), 'Eleanora,' 1842
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The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.: Ellen Glasglow
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784), Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796
If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
The perfection of art is to conceal art.: Quintilian
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.: Dick Gregory (1932 - )
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
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