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Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.: Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
Can I ever know you Or you know me?: Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.: Bob Moawad
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.: Salma Hayek
We need men who can dream of things that never were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.: Erica Jong
In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.: Matthias, Correction Weblog, 11-01-03
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Why Does Congress Suck?, 01-01-13
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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), 1420
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.: Clarence Thomas (1948 - )
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )