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There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950), A Guide to Men, 1922
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.: Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
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Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.: Marie Beyon Ray
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.: Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
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Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.: Jeff Mallett, Frazz, 08-03-04
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.: Aprocrypha
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.: Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?: Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl, Northern Exposure, Soapy Sanderson, 1990
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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