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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.: Golda Meir (1898 - 1978)
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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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There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.: Melody Beattie
The palest ink is better than the best memory.: Chinese Proverb
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Elijah Aron, Jordan Young, Raising Hope, Cheaters, April 2011
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.: Ursula K. LeGuin
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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.: Andy Rooney (1919 - )
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.: Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
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