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I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m discovering that things were never in my hands.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 2, 2003
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.: John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.: M. C. Richards
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Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2004
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.: Beryl Pfizer
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.: Robert Redford (1937 - )
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.: Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
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The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
I don't think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.: Matthew Oliphant, Usability Works, 04-01-2006
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.: William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.: Fritjof Capra, physicist
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