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That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Badè's Life and Letters of John Muir: June 9, 1872 letter to Miss Catharine Merrill, from New Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Valley
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It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.: Queen Christina (1626 - 1689), of Sweden
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.: Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.: Jack Benny (1894 - 1974)
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.: Noelie Altito
The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Young Hope, 04-26-13
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Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Medication isn’t the only way to correct brain abnormalities in depression. Physical exercise also brings about profound changes in the brain—changes that rival those seen with the most potent antidepressant medications.: Stephen S. Ilardi PhD, The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs, 2009
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.: Scott Adams (1957 - )
There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.: Roger van der Heide, TED: Why light neds darkness
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.: Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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