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Every artist was first an amateur.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.: John Fischer
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.: Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)
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Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.: Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.: Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.: Kathleen Norris
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I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.: Hillary Rodham Clinton (1948 - ), Ellen DeGeneres interview, 04-07-08
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
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The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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