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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.: Stephen King (1947 - ), "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988
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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.': Dan Parker
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2-10-05
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A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.: Granville Hicks (1901 - 1982)
An optimist is the human personification of spring.: Susan J. Bissonette
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The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...: Donald Barthelme
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.: Chris Messina, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Mitch All Together