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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
A friend is a gift you give yourself.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.: Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.: Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975)
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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.: Lorraine Anderson
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.: George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.: Jane Howard, "Families"
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He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.: Charles Mackay
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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