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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
Nearly one-half of all Americans are torsos.: Demetri Martin, On James Corden, Sept. 7, 2018
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.: Grenville Kleiser
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.: Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
Eye contact is the best accessory.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.: Benjamin Stolberg
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Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.: Italian Proverb
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
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I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.: Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Koichi Mano
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
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I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Letter to Nickolas Muray, 12-18-1939
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.: Elaine Gill
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