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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maximes (1678)
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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher, 05-01-07
Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.: Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.: Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 09-27-07
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.: Robertson Davies
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.: Marie Beyon Ray
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.: Ellis Peters
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)