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Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.: Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.: David McCullough (1933 - )
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The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.: Frank Tyger
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.: Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.: Norah Jones, O Magazine, July 2003
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.': Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Reality continues to ruin my life.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates
Variety is the soul of pleasure.: Aphra Behn
This is like deja vu all over again.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.: Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 06-15-05
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