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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.: Margaret Halsey
Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
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On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.: May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.: Ausonius
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.: Marlo Thomas
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.: Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?': Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.: Sally Kempton
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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?": George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
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When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go... A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.: Ben Azai, Mishna
Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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