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She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.: Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
I've accepted that I'm not going to die of natural causes, [but] getting killed 'cuz you're naturally a dick seems like natural causes to me.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Natural Causes, 06-07-13
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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.: Jerry Chin
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.: Norman Maclean
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.: Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.: Baltasar Gracian
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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.: Kenneth Hildebrand
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!: R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.: Bill Vaughan
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Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.: Solomon Short
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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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