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Desire, ask, believe, receive.: Stella Terrill Mann
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.': Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 04-12-2006
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.: Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Even the great get greater by doing more of it.: Colleen Wainwright, communitcatrix, 04-10-2006
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835), Advice to Young Men, 1829
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.: Spanish Proverb
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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.: George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
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When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.: Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.: Bradley's Bromide
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When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
Virtue is choked with foul ambition.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
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There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945), Benchley's Law of Distinction
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.: Peter De Vries
[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.: Robert Downey Jr., Entertainment Weekly, 11-21-08
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