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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
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I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Interview, April 30, 1978
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Where facts are few, experts are many.: Donald R. Gannon
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The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.: Evenius
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.: Kathleen Norris
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.: James Oppenheim
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In summer, the song sings itself.: William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
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It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mister Sandman, 1994
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.: Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.: Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)