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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.: William Arthur Ward
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks.: Ellen Herman, Northern Exposure, Only You, 1991
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.: Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.: Howard Newton
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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.: Mark B. Cohen
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The days of the digital watch are numbered.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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Hope is only the love of life.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.: Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.: Hannah Green
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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.: Ian Fleming (1908 - 1964)
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), Unkempt Thoughts