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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.: Margaret Fairless Barber
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?: Kelvin Throop III
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Use soft words and hard arguments.: English Proverb
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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.: Unknown, The Ladies Repository, September 1874
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Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.: Helen Mirren
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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.: Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.: Baltasar Gracian
I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.: Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.: Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983)
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.: Madame de Stael (1766 - 1817)
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.: Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), An Unfinished Woman, 1969