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It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.
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Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
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Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
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Althea Gibson (1927 - 2003)
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Grief does not change you, it reveals you.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
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Shakti Gawain
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
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Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Colette (1873 - 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
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Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958)
We go where our vision is.
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Joseph Murphy
Don't fall before you're pushed.
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English Proverb
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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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