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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.: H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?: Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
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Voices that loud are always meant to bully. Do not be bullied. Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and, yes your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Spare no expense to save money on this one.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.: Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912)
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
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Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Laughter is inner jogging.: Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990)
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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.: Diane Ackerman
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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)