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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.: Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.: James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968
I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006
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Don't fall before you're pushed.: English Proverb
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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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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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.: Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.: George W. Bush (1946 - ), Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
Music is essentially useless, as life is.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
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I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.: Frank Deford
Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.: Saadi (1184 - 1291)
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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