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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Metropolitan Life, 1978
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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.: Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth.": Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.: Jane O'Reilly
If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.: Frank Tyger
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.: Miles Davis (1926 - 1991)
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Men have become the tools of their tools.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), in Good Housekeeping
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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.: George E. Woodberry
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.: Don Delillo
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)