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I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.: Margaret Cho, I'm The One That I Want, 1999
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Canterville Ghost, 1882
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Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you.: Mark Steven Johnson, Ghostrider, 2007
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.: Audrey Giorgi
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
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An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.: Unknown
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.: Dorothy Sarnoff
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.: Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.: Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)