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For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.: Marilyn C. Barrick
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.: Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), 1958
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I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.: Dr. Ana M Guzman
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.: Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.: Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
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To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.: Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
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I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant, 01-10-10
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Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.: Alban Goodier
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.: Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000)
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)