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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06-11-04
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It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
The best way out is always through.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.: Robertson Davies
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.: English Proverb
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.: Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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We don't get offered crises, they arrive.: Elizabeth Janeway
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.: Arnold Palmer (1929 - )
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Cat's Cradle