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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.: Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.: Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958)
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945), Benchley's Law of Distinction
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.: Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988)
Honor does not have to be defended.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.: Walter Anderson
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Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.: Shakti Gawain
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.: T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace, Penny and Aggie, 09-12-05
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Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)