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And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.: Mike Myers, Talking about Shrek
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.: Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
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Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.: George Ade (1866 - 1944), "Fables in Slang", 1899
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2005
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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.: C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
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You don’t have to live your life so that your life is suitable for small talk. Life can be lived in ways that circumnavigate a myriad of colors and landscapes.: Cherie Ve Ard, Technomadia, 04-04-2013
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
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The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.: Norman Brenner
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.: Doris Mortman
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.: E. W. Dijkstra
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No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
Conceit is God's gift to little men.: Bruce Barton
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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