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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)
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), Dhammapada
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!: Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927), "Three Men in a Boat", 1889
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.: Kurt Herbert Alder
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Atlantic Monthly, January 1869
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If you continue to expend your energy trying to change things that don’t really matter in the long run or that are not within your sphere of influence, you’ll wind up exhausted and frustrated, with no positive results to show for your effort.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
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Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.: Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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The family is the country of the heart.: Giuseppe Mazzini (1805 - 1872)
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)