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Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.: Victoria Holt
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.: Ellen DeGeneres
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
The way to final freedom is within thy self.: The Book of the Golden Precepts
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.: Sir Henry Taylor
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.: Sean O'Faolain (1900 - 1991)
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Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.: Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.: William Gibson (1948 - )
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.: Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.: Baltasar Gracian
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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