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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.: Anonymous, Graffito
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.: Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.: Jennifer Louden
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
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)
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.: A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938 - 1989), President of Yale University
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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
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You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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