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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.: Rita Rudner
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.: Rabbi Abraham Heschel
You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only, 04-18-2006
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.: May Sarton
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Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.: George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.: Dale Carnegie
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People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.: Bruce Barton
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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.': Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
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A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.: Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.: Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.: Hesketh Pearson
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
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