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We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), quoted in Linda Botts, "Loose Talk" (1980)
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.: Dale Carnegie
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We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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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Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.: George Tooker
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I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum.: Hank Green
Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.: Norman Ford
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.: Sir Richard Steele
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.: John Barth (1930 - )
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To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.": Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)
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