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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
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The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside...: Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), Movie Reveiw of "American Beauty"
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.: Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.: Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.: John Benfield
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.: Diana Spencer
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.: Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.: Evelyn Underhill
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.: Eddie Izzard
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.: Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.: Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)