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Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.: Ruth Stout
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.: Adele Brookman
Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.: Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - )
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.: Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.: James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926
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You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
What worries you masters you.: Haddon W. Robinson
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.: Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.: Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)
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Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.: Stella Terrill Mann
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Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.: George McDonald
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.: Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD)
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1