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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.: Mickey Mantle (1931 - 1995), (attributed)
Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.: 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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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.: Ted Morgan
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.: M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.: Art Spander
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Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 - )
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.: Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
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One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.: Marlo Thomas
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.: Marie De France, 12th Century