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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
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Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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W. N. Taylor
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Jane Goodall (1934 - )
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
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Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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Stephen King (1947 - ), "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
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Baltasar Gracian
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
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Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04
You never can see into someone else's marriage.
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Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.
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Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
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Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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Trieu Thi Trinh
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
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Bob Newhart (1929 - )
If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.
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W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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