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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Live forever or die in the attempt.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.: Doris Mortman
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.: James Rippe, M.D.
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No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.': Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.: John H. Patterson
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.: Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.: Maria Irene Fornes
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.: Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.: Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.: Alan Paton (1903 - 1988)
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.: Marie De France, 12th Century
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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