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I don't think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.: Matthew Oliphant, Usability Works, 04-01-2006
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!: Amy Tan (1952 - )
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.: Quintilian
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I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.: Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975
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Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.: Jack Handey (1949 - )
He who would travel happily must travel light.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
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Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.: Peter Blake, House M.D., Safe, 2006
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.': Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.: Saskya Pandita
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