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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.: John Green (1977 - ), VlogBrothers, A Poem for Spring, 03-26-13
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.: Shirley Trusty Corey
Desire, ask, believe, receive.: Stella Terrill Mann
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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Don’t imagine the heartbreak before it happens.: Susan Kaye Quinn, When You Had Power, 2020
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Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.: Italian Proverb
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), in a letter to Winston Churchill
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.: Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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This book fills a much-needed gap.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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