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- If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
- Nora Ephron
- Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
- Shirley MacLaine (1934 - )
- I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
- Dutch Proverb
- You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
- Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
- I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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