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Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.": Paul Graham, September 2004
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.: Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.: Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - )
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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A joke's a very serious thing.: Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.: Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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Food is the most primitive form of comfort.: Sheila Graham
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