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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.: Shakti Gawain
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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.: Bagdikian's Observation
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.: Gloria Naylor
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Happiness depends upon ourselves.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.: J. Hart (1931 - )
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003
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Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.: Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.: Quentin Crisp
It's not a 9-5 job. It's an every moment you're awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you're doing.: Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Designing for Community with Zero-Advertising Brands, SXSW 2006
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.: Marilyn vos Savant
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