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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.: Jessica Alba
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.: William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922), Afoot in England, 1909
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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
Above all things, reverence yourself.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
All people want is someone to listen.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.: Olga Ilyin
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.: Joel Fuhrman, M.D., Fasting And Eating For Health