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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.: Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957)
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.": Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.: Paul Fix
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05
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He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.": H. E. Martz
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To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.: Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide, 1759
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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
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The secret of being boring is to say everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.: David McCullough (1933 - )
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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.: Anonymous
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.: Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04