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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.: Robertson Davies
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Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?: Budd Schulberg, O Magazine, November 2003
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You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.: Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
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It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.: Sally Kempton
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Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
A mind too active is no mind at all.: Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
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You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.: Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
If you are capable people are happy to play with you.: Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Mustard's no good without roast beef.: Chico Marx (1891 - 1961)
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.: Fulton J. Sheen
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.: Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616)