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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.': William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.: Diane Wakoski
Always be a little kinder than necessary.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
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Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.: Baltasar Gracian
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), My Early Life, 1930
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971), No One Here Gets Out Alive
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Letter to Nickolas Muray, 12-18-1939
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.: George Saunders, last words
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.: John Wilmot
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.: Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)