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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.: Clarence Thomas (1948 - )
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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager.": William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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Desire, ask, believe, receive.: Stella Terrill Mann
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.: Joan Didion (1934 - )
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
Do not consider painful what is good for you.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.': Unknown
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.: Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.: Doug Larson
The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.: Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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