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A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.: Barry Neil Kaufman
There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.: Millicent Fenwick
This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?: Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl, Northern Exposure, Soapy Sanderson, 1990
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students
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I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.: Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004
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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.: Peter York
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
What luck for rulers that men do not think.: Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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