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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), O Magazine, October 2003
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.: Nick Diamos
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A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.: John Heywood (1497 - 1580)
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.: Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.: Dennis Miller
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.: William Arthur Ward
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When you get angry at your ex, only about 10 percent of your anger can be attributed to the current situation. The other 90 percent comes from your past experiences with your ex, as well as those with your parents, caregivers, and other significant people in your past. The current situation has simply triggered your past anger and allowed it to resurface. It’s been said that if you’re hysterical, the cause is probably historical.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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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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The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.: Harold Taylor
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)