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It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.: Edith Nesbitt
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Silence is more musical than any song.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835), Advice to Young Men, 1829
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.: Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
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
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
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It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 03-24-07
The only cure for grief is action.: George Henry Lewes
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A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.: Unknown
Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.: Hob Broun
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He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
The only gift is a portion of thyself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.: Rita Rudner
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We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
I dream, therefore I become.: Cheryl Renée Grossman
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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Anything you fully do is an alone journey.: Natalie Goldberg
Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101