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Our lives teach us who we are.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - )
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
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I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
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Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 09-17-08
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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.: Mark B. Cohen
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You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.: Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2004
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.: Joe Martin, Porterfield
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.: Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 1590
I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.': Unknown
The cure for anything is salt water... tears, sweat or the sea.: Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales, 1934
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...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.: Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.: Sidney J. Harris
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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.': Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
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