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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
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The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), 300 B.C.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.: W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963), last message to the world, 1957
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.: Lynda Barry
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Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.: Whoopi Goldberg
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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.: Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.: Gail Godwin
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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.: Blake Clark
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.: Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.: L. L. Henderson
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What we play is life.: Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)
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