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Every crowd has a silver lining.: Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)
Careful. We don't want to learn from this.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), "Calvin and Hobbes"
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.: Wally Lamb
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.: Daniel Considine
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.: George Steiner
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'
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I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), 20th Anniversary DVD
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860
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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.: Madeleine Albright (1937 - ), Making Sense of the Unimaginable, O Magazine
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Even the great get greater by doing more of it.: Colleen Wainwright, communitcatrix, 04-10-2006
If you can break down those walls you’ve spent so many years building to protect yourself, you can achieve anything.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.: Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946), Penrod (1914)
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.: Colin Powell (1937 - )
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People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.: Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003