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- If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
- Kathleen Casey Theisen
- Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.
- Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
- You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.
- Vernon Howard
- I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
- Jean Shinoda Bolen
- I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
- Cynthia Ozick
- We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.
- Rebecca Beard
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