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...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.: Mary Kay Ash
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher, 05-01-07
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.: Senator Dianne Feinstein (1933 - )
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despairâ€“the sense that you can never completely put on the page whatâ€™s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.: Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
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Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.: Eugene Mirman, LHS Commencement Speech, 2009
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.: Alan Corenk
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I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.: Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.: Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), From "Betting on the Muse"
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.: Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.: Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)