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If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-09-04
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I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.: Brendan Francis
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
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Good food ends with good talk.: Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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I am just going outside and may be some time.: Captain Lawrence Oates (1880 - 1912), last words
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958), Crewe Train, 1926
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.: Mo Udall
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.: Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.: Scottish Proverb
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.: James Lane Allen
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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