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Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.: Kurt Herbert Alder
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, October 14, 2003
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.: Joanna Field
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.: Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else.": Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
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No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.: Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.: Chris Evert (1954 - )
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.: Hasidic Saying
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Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.: Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D Game Over
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.: Lenore Hershey
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Fish and visitors smell in three days.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736