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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 07-26-2012
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 11-11-04
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-14-2005
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.: Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.: Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970), on refusing Western economic assistance, 'Realites,' January 20, 1969
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.: Pierre Charron
A single day is enough to make us a little larger.: Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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