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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.: Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863 - 1938)
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.: Brock Chisholm
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.: Bible, Old Testament
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
Our envy of others devours us most of all.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
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Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.: Unknown
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.: Jerry Garcia, (of the Grateful Dead)
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.: Jeffrey Rowland, Sound! 12-22-05
What you risk reveals what you value.: Jeanette Winterson
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Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.: Saadi (1184 - 1291)
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.: Quentin Crisp
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)