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Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
‘Dignity’ has to do crucially with a butler’s ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits.: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, 1989
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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.: Sophy Burnham
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.: Lois McMaster Bujold
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.: A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.: Noelie Altito
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.: Bella Abzug (1920 - )
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.: John Updike (1932 - )
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.: Clyde B. Aster
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.: John Howard Payne (1791 - 1852)
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.: Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.: Tom Thompson
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.: John Green (1977 - ), An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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