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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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It is bad luck to be superstitious.: Andrew W. Mathis
Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.: Henry J. Tillman
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You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.: Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley, 1963
History is more or less bunk.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.: Josephine demott Robinson, O Magazine, December 2003
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.: Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 06-29-06
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.: John Atkinson