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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.: George Saunders, last words
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
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The body is a sacred garment.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.: Joey Bishop (1918 - )
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...: Trieu Thi Trinh
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.: Michele Shea
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I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.: Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.: Elizabeth Stone
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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