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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.: Jane Wagner
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.: Stanley Walker
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If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.: I. F. Stone (1907 - 1989)
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.: Sam Ewing
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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We all should be self-made, yes? The only question is what self you are making.: Susan Kaye Quinn, When You Had Power, 2020
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.: Frank Crane
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.: Charles DuBois
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!': Ellen DeGeneres, on Oprah Winfrey 1995
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Television has raised writing to a new low.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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But be, as you have been, my happiness...: Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.: A. Sachs
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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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