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My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.: Steven Spielberg
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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.: Rita Rudner
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.: Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958
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Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.: Victoria Holt
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Never promise more than you can perform.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Camino Real
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.: Sidney J. Harris
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.: Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.: Roy M. Goodman
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.: Saadi (1184 - 1291)
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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002