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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.: Dr. David M. Burns
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Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us - Life is the test of us!: Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.: Madame de Stael (1766 - 1817)
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Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Annajanska (1919)
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.: Meister Eckhart
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times Aug. 31 1924
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I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.: Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.: Wilfred A. Peterson
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Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05
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