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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), inaugural address, January 20, 1961
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973)
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
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Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.: Narenda Rocherolle, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.: Anonymous
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts as our own, but they probably are.: James Harvey Robinson
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.: Arnold Palmer (1929 - )
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.: Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Pick Me! 02-11-09
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When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003
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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
Oregano is the spice of life.: Henry J. Tillman
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.: Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 1590
I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.: Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948