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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.: Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.: Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
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Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.: Anne Lamott
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Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.: Carlos A. Urbizo
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 03-23-06
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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.: Randall Munroe, xkcd, Marie Curie, 2011
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Praise the bridge that carried you over.: George Colman (1762 - 1836), The Younger