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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.: Cynthia Ozick
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.: A. H. Weiler (1909 - 2002)
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
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
A little drama wins more friends than boring.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour, 2004
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.: Baltasar Gracian
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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.: Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
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We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.: Cullen Hightower
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.: Rita Rudner
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.: Colin Powell (1937 - )
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.: The Dalai Lama (1935 - )
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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.: Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811