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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.: Alan Bennett
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.: Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 - 1896), quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924
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It's not having what you want It's wanting what you've got.: Sheryl Crow, Soak Up The Sun
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
What happens when the future has come and gone?: Robert Half
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When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.: Baltasar Gracian
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.: Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.: Derek Sivers, TED Talk: Weird, or just different? Nov 2009
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.: Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937