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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.: Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
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Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.: Belgian Proverb
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We don't get offered crises, they arrive.: Elizabeth Janeway
In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Luck is the residue of design.: Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965), Lecture title, 1950
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.: Walter Goodman
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You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, A Wing and a Prayer, 1994
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Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.: Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889)
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.: Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Secretary of Defense
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Grief does not change you, it reveals you.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.: Rita Rudner
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