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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.: John Updike (1932 - )
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.: I. F. Stone (1907 - 1989)
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.: William Arthur Ward
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The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.: Arnold Palmer (1929 - )
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.: R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
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Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Happiness depends upon ourselves.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.: Edith Sodergran
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self Reliance"
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.: Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961), quoted Washingtonian, November 1978
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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.: Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883 edition, last words
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