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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Life is a long lesson in humility.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.: Lane Olinghouse
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.: Margaret Peters
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.: Paul Fussell
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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.: Erica Jong
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An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.: Benjamin Stolberg
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04
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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.: Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
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If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 30, 08-22-04
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.: Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love," 1992
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.: Alan Paton (1903 - 1988)
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.: May Sarton
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.: John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
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