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I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
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I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.: Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933)
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.: John Churton Collins
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Things are only impossible until they're not.: Hannah Louise Shearer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, When The Bough Breaks, 1988
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.: Totie Fields
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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.: Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.: Gene Fowler
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946
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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.: Edward Chapin
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us - Life is the test of us!: Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.: Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.: Leonard Louis Levinson
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It is the caring and sharing that count—love is not prevented by the things and the time that you haven’t shared.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.: George McDonald