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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.: Sue Murphy
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860
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The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.: Phillip Lopate
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.: Margaret Fairless Barber
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.: Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
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Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.: Liberace (1919 - 1987)
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.: Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863 - 1938)
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954
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If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.: M. C. Richards
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), in her Nobel lecture
When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.: Shakti Gawain
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)