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Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.: John Green, VlogBrothers, A Poem for Spring, 03-26-13
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What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.: Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.: Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.: William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922), Afoot in England, 1909
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.: Pat Paulsen
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.: Meladee McCarty
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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Friends are born, not made.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.: Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)
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This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.: Colleen Wainwright, communicatrix, 03-23-2006
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Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.: Alvin Toffler
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In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.: David Smith
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.: George Iles
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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.: Shirley Temple (1928 - )
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics