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Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.: Victoria Holt
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.: Krishnamurti
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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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.: Doug Larson
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I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953
Such friendship at once enhances the lustre of prosperity, and by dividing and sharing adversity lessens its burden.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!: Belva Plain
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I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.: Colette (1873 - 1954), The Last of Cheri, 1926
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Laughter is by definition healthy.: Doris Lessing
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.: Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)