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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.: Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.: Wil Wheaton, WWdN: In Exile, 12-14-2011
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.: Alan Saporta
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.: Mary Daly
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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.: Noelie Altito
The body says what words cannot.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.: Marquis de Vauvenargues
Never confuse movement with action.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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Reason should direct and appetite obey.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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