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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.: Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1737
I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.: Jean Shinoda Bolen
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.: Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.: Minna Thomas Antrim
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.: Phillip C. McGraw, O Magazine, February 2003
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.: C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
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