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Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 08-06-08
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Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Journals,' 1836
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860
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If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.: William H. Borah
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Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.: Henrik Tikkanen
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.: Dorothea Dix (1802 - 1887)
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.: Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944)
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The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.: Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.: William Cecil Burleigh
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.: Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)