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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.: Rita Mae Brown
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
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If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.: Yogi Berra (1925 - ), as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963
What's another word for Thesaurus?: Steven Wright (1955 - )
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.: Unknown
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.: Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.: Paul Hawken
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)