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Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009
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Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.: Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
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With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?': Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.: Brendan Francis
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Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.: Unknown
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
I think it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice, if it doesn't lead to a crime.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
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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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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