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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.: Jack Layton, Letter to Canada, 08-20-2011
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.: Christina Baldwin
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.: Mignon McLaughlin
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.: Sidney J. Harris
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.: Ann Richards
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.: Latin Proverb
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A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.: Henry Morgan
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Guilt is a rope that wears thin.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
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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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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.: Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
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