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There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.: Mary C. Taylor, Watercolor Bold and Free
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The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.: Harlan Ellison (1934 - )
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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.: John Sheffield
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You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.: Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.: Elizabeth David
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.: Donald Trump (1946 - ), Press Conference, February 16, 2017
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764