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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.: Gail Godwin
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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
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.: Jane Howard, "Families"
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You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 03-26-08
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.: Farrah Gray
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One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.: Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.: Anzia Yezierska
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.: Margaret Lee Runbeck
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.: Colette (1873 - 1954), Paris From My Window, 1944
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.: Sir Richard Steele
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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.: Gordon R. Dickson
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I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.: Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005