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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.: Ellen DeGeneres
How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.: Eric Ambler
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.: Amy Bloom
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.: Mary Daly
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.: Chuck Norris (1940 - )
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.: Sophy Burnham
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
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All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.: Michael Friedman
There is no remedy for love but to love more.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
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