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When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), letter to Le Comte d'Argental, August 28, 1760
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.: William Bridges
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
I can resist anything but temptation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.: Baltasar Gracian
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I
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Regimen is superior to medicine.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.: Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
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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Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' Act III, scene ii
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.: Alanis Morissette (1974 - ), Reader's Digest, March 2000
Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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