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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.: Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)
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I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.: Charles A. Dana (1819 - 1897)
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.: Stuart's Law of Retroaction
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.: Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974)
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), 1890
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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.: Hortense Calisher
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What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
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It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.: Lisa Williams, Bloggers In Love, SXSW 2006
It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.: David Richerby
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.: Brendan Gill
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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.: Wally 'Famous' Amos (1936 - )
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)