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We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.: Edward Sellner
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
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Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.: Erica Jong
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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
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You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.: Piero Ferrucci
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.: Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.: Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Not going home is already like death.: E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
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A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.: Bob Edwards
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.: Isabel Colegate
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