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Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.: The Belzer Rabbi
If you believe everything you read, better not read.: Japanese Proverb
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One must desire something to be alive.: Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Do or do not. There is no try.: Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'
I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.: Payne Stewart
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?: Rose Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
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Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.: Bayard Taylor
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.: William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-29-2006
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I am just going outside and may be some time.: Captain Lawrence Oates (1880 - 1912), last words
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)