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Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.: Althea Gibson (1927 - 2003)
Oregano is the spice of life.: Henry J. Tillman
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
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I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
It is easier to stay out than get out.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.: Marilyn Ferguson
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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
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.: Hillary Rodham Clinton (1948 - ), Ellen DeGeneres interview, 04-07-08
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'
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Children will adapt to nearly any rule or routine as long as it is consistently enforced within that particular household.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.: Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968)
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
I'm still an atheist, thank God.: Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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