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The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.: Price Cobb
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.: Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940), Living My Life, 1931
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.: George Iles
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Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.: Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.: Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn
If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.: Yugoslav Proverb
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Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.: Unknown
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.: Anonymous
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.: White Eagle