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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.: Junot Diaz, O Magazine, November 2009
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.: Edith Nesbitt
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Faust
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God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping
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Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.: Austin O'Malley
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.: Madonna (1958 - )
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.: Willie Shoemaker
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The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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No human thing is of serious importance.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.: A. Whitney Brown
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