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- It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
- Thomas K. Mattingly II
- People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
- David H. Comins
- I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
- Beverly Sills (1929 - )
- When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
- Leo Burnett
- The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
- Florence Shinn
- The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Robert Fulghum (1937 - ), It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
- I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
- Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
- It's never too late to be who you might have been.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
- Good men must be affectionate men.
- Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)
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