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- One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Meditations'
- Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
- John Barth (1930 - )
- It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
- Stuart's Law of Retroaction
- Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
- Brian Adams
- She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
- John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969)
- This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
- Captain J. A. Hadfield
- Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart (1929 - )
- When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
- Alice Hoffman, 'Here on Earth'
- To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
- Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
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