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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.: Rabbi Seymour Siegel
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Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.: Christina Baldwin
The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Berenice
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?: Harry Shearer
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.: Miriam Beard
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.: M. F. K. Fisher
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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?: Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
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We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.: Bob Edwards
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