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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
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Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
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Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of Myself, 1855
If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, She's A Bit of A Pout, author's note, 08-31-11
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
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Jack Handey (1949 - )
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
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Shakti Gawain
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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Olin Miller
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What the Dead Men Say, 1954
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.
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Rebecca Beard
Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
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Leslie Nielsen (1926 - )
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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