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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.: Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green And Other Things to Consider
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.: Marquis de la Grange (1639 - 1692)
It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.: Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
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If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince"
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?: Scott Adams (1957 - )
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Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.: Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.: Corita Kent
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If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.: Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684), 'The Cid,' 1636
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.: Dick Gregory (1932 - )
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I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.: Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
Don't fall before you're pushed.: English Proverb
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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.: Unknown
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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.: Philip Adams
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