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Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.: Marguerite de Valois
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.: Salma Hayek
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Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.: Swedish Proverb
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I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory.: Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam, 08-30-13
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.: Gail Godwin
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.: Richard Diran
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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I am never afraid of what I know.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.: Jeff Marder
Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.: Michele Shea
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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
You don’t need to win every medal to be successful.: Jason Fried, Signal Vs. Noise, 08-22-06