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Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
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He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.: Anonymous, Blackfoot chief (c. 1880)
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You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 03-26-08
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.: Sue Patton Thoele
Sanity is a madness put to good use.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Confusion is always the most honest response.: Marty Indik
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.: Jennifer Louden
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
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I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.: George Best
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?: Woody Allen (1935 - )