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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.: C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.: Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.: Rod Steiger
One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.: Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.: Firesign Theatre
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.: Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)
A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.: Ralph W. Sockman
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.: The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.: Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.: Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)