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Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.: Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
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Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.: Dr. Frank Crane
You may delay, but time will not.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962), to a young physicist
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06-02-04
There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
I am never afraid of what I know.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.: Leslie Nielsen (1926 - )
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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What I dream of is an art of balance.: Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003
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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.: Rabbi Julius Gordon
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.: Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
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