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You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
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The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.: Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.: Edwin P. Whipple
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.: John Benfield
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.: Inigo DeLeon
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You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.: Sheila Graham
In summer, the song sings itself.: William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.: Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
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All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.: Ellis Peters
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)