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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.: George Matthew Adams
Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?: Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.: James Hilton (1900 - 1954)
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.: Lucille Clifton
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.: Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.: Sidney J. Harris
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.: George Melton
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We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.: Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.: James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.: Mother Jones
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.: Jacob Braude