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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.: Vida D. Scudder
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.: Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990)
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.: Alice Walker (1944 - ), "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.: Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook
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I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?': Jay Leno (1950 - )
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The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), Emile, 1762
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.: Herman Wouk (1915 - )
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.: Vic Gold
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.: Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.: Toni Cade Bambara