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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.: Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What The Dead Men Say, 1964
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
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Disappearing can be quite the coping mechanism for those of us who fear abandonment the very most of all. If we disappear, you have to find us. You're the one who worries. We know where we are, but you can't leave me. I'm in charge and doing the leaving. Not the other way around.: Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, Disappearing Act, 03-06-12
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement.: Colby Dorr Dam
It's not having what you want It's wanting what you've got.: Sheryl Crow, Soak Up The Sun
Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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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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Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.: Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002
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Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.: Vic Gold
In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late.: Alison Headley, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006