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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.: Erica Jong
What you cannot enforce, do not command.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.: John Cleese (1939 - )
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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.: George Sand (1804 - 1876)
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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.: Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684), 'The Cid,' 1636
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Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.: Denzel Washington (1954 - )
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.: Don Herold
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.: Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.: Sidney J. Harris
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.: Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
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It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
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Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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