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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.: Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
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What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.: Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.: Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)
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The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2004
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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Make your life a mission - not an intermission.: Arnold Glasgow
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.: John C. Dvorak
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.: Bill Vaughan
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.: Sidney J. Harris
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04
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If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.: Mo Udall
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