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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 03-26-08
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No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.: Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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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
My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.: Roseanne Barr
Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Spring Break, 1991
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Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.: Gordon Atkinson, weblog, 04-29-04
My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Anything you fully do is an alone journey.: Natalie Goldberg
Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.: Kelly Barton
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Profiles in Courage, 1956
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables,' 1862