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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.: Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.: Harold Taylor
You suffer a lot more hiding something than if you face up to it.: Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.: Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
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I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.: Sally Kempton
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.: Laurie Anderson, Language Is A Virus
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.: Mary MacCracken
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Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.: Chinese Proverb
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I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
I've accepted that I'm not going to die of natural causes, [but] getting killed 'cuz you're naturally a dick seems like natural causes to me.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Natural Causes, 06-07-13
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
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