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You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.: Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.: Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.: Bagdikian's Observation
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.: Minna Thomas Antrim
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
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Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.: Italian Proverb
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.: J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), speaking of Albert Einstein
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Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.: Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards
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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.: Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.: Bible, Old Testament
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)