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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.: Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
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The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.: Rebecca Beard
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
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The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.: Edith Sodergran
When children feel they have to earn our love by what they accomplish, they never feel good about themselves, no matter how much they do, no matter what their age. Indeed, some adults work outrageous hours, make huge salaries, and always strive to accomplish more and yet are never satisfied, no matter what they have achieved. This is because they were never given the free, unconditional love of their parents, the love that is every child’s birthright.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.: Farmers' Almanac, 1978
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No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.: Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), to her daughter, Liza Minelli
The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Invention is the mother of necessity.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008