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- Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
- Joan Didion (1934 - ), "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
- It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
- John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"
- I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise.
- John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator?
- America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
- John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories
- We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
- Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
- Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
- A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
- Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness
- No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
- Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
- I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.
- Leona Helmsly
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