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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.: Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
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If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), (Dear Abby)
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In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.: Robert Byrne
It is bad luck to be superstitious.: Andrew W. Mathis
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.: Henry Winkler (1945 - )
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
The wisest men follow their own direction.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
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Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.: John Mitchell Mason
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Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.: Dan McKinnon
Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'The Spectator'
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Mother Night