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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
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Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.: Denise Mina, Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy, 2006
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
Dare to be yourself.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.: Philip Gold, Doctors: Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes 2005 Calendar
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.: Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988
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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.: Bagdikian's Observation
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), On the Nature of the Universe
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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You're never too old to become younger.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.: Irving Wallace
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.: Aaron Burr (1756 - 1836)
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.: Marie Leneru, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.: Kathleen Casey Theisen