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As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931), The Philosophy of Despair
The world is round; it has no point.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
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I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.: David Sedaris
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.: Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
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If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.: Ann Richards
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.: Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.: George E. Woodberry
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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.: Jean Nidetch
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.: Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'
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I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2004
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He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.: Jewish Proverb
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It’s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-09-05
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.: Sir Richard Steele
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.: John Buchan (1875 - 1940)
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Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.: Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
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If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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