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The cure for anything is salt water... tears, sweat or the sea.: Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales, 1934
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.: Minna Thomas Antrim
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.: Chinese Proverb
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There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.: Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
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Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.: William Congreve (1670 - 1729), The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.: Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
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There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.: May Sarton
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
If you’re... asking yourself why I have this success and you don’t, don’t be angry with me—stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.: John M. Ford
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.: Alvin Toffler
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Health is not valued till sickness comes.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.: Melody Beattie