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It's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them—that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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My home is not a place, it is people.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.: Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.: Baltasar Gracian
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.: Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
The best armor is to keep out of range.: Italian Proverb
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