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That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter of the hundreds.: Monica Hesse, The Washington Post, 04-03-12
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.: Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.: Peter Borden
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.: Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
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Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.: C. V. R. Thompson
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.: Edith Nesbitt
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
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The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.: Marilyn Manson (1969 - ), I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statement
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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I bet the human brain is a kludge.: Marvin Minsky
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.: Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
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