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The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten: Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.: Immanuel Hermann Fichte
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Guns don't kill people. People who say "Guns don't kill people" kill people. With guns.: Rob Delaney, Twitter
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.: Russell Green
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
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Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.: Nora Ephron
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.: Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God, 2006
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.: Alan Alda (1936 - )
I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.: John Viscount Morley
Every artist was first an amateur.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
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When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.: George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
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)
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992