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This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
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)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.: Alban Goodier
The perfection of art is to conceal art.: Quintilian
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
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One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.: Marlo Thomas
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), O Magazine, October 2003
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.: Stewart L. Udall (1920 - ), commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
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Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.: Franklin P. Jones
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.: American Heart Association Cookbook
Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Measure for Measure'
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.: Stella Terrill Mann
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.: Edward Clarke
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.": Peter McWilliams, Life 101
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
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