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To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.: Payne Stewart
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.: Walter Anderson
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No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.: Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.: Whoopi Goldberg
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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.: Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.: Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.: Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991
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Fish and visitors smell in three days.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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