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Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.: Baltasar Gracian
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.: Shakti Gawain
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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 11-14-08
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He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.: George Shelley
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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.': Jeff Foxworthy
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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.: Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.: Anonymous
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The report of my death was an exaggeration.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.: M. F. K. Fisher
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.: Eugene Mirman, LHS Commencement Speech, 2009
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 'I Remember, I Believe,' The Pursuit of Justice, 1964
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There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.: Martin Gardner (1914 - ), "The Mathematical Magic Show"
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.: Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
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