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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06
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The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.: Paul Johnson
Our patience will achieve more than our force.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.: Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
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Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.: Arnold Bennett
The secret to success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.: John Churton Collins
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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.: Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
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You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience: John Gruber, How to Blog for Money by Learning from Comics, SXSW 2006
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Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable.: John Mankiewicz, House, The Socratic Method, 2004
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.: Alfred A. Knopf
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2003
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