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If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.: Joseph Farrell
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.: Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.: Japanese Proverb
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), The Man Upstairs (1914)
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.: Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
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It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.: Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"
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Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.: Alice Munro
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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.: J. G. C. Brainard
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Every crowd has a silver lining.: Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
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Without discipline, there's no life at all.: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.: Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.: Lester J. Pourciau
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