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No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.: Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
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One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher.com weblog, September 9, 2003
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.: Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.: Oscar Arias Sanchez (1941 - )
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The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.: Francine Du Plessix Gray
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.: Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.: Emerson Pugh
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
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In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.: Jeffery F. Chamberlain
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Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006