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You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Pick Me! 02-11-09
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In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.: Dr. David M. Burns
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There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.: May Sarton
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-30-12
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.: Quintilian
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.: Elizabeth Elton Smith
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.: Ralph W. Sockman
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
Whatever you are, be a good one.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.: Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788)
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.: Robertson Davies
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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