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Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.: Gordon Atkinson, weblog, 04-29-04
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.: Christina Baldwin
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.: Spanish Proverb
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There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family.": Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.: Abigail van Buren (1918 - )
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.: Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
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