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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.: Unknown
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
Fall seven times, stand up eight.: Japanese Proverb
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I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.: Jean Shinoda Bolen
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
Actions lie louder than words.: Carolyn Wells
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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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Only fools are positive.: Moe Howard (1897 - 1975)
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968), 'No Man Is an Island'
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.: Mary Catherine Bateson
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.: Alan Corenk
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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 8, 08-22-04
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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