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Never have children, only grandchildren.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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It's better to be a company than to work for a company.: Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.: Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973), Tao of Jeet Kune Do
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.: John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories
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Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.: Amy Bloom
Nothing endures but personal qualities.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-25-05
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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.: Dorothy Nevill
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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.: Salma Hayek
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), The Last Asset, 1904
Don't fall before you're pushed.: English Proverb
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860
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When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.: Owen Wister, The Virginian, Chapter 13, 1929
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.: Bob Wells
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.: Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
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