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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
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I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.: Antonia Brenner
Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.: Ellen DeGeneres
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.: Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), misquoting Sir Walter Scott
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.: Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.: Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
If I've learned one thing in the 14 years I've been a full-time cartoonist, it's that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. It has to be a personal ethos to which you adhere despite third party influence or acceptance. The old measuring sticks for professionalism are going away and now more than ever it's time for independent creatives to set the bar. Set it high.: Scott R. Kurtz, PvPonline, 11-28-2011
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