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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 03-24-07
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.: W. N. Taylor
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.: Nathaniel Branden
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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.: Donald Foster
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.: Krishnamurti
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 12-19-2011
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.: Robert Byrne