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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.: Rita Rudner
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.: P. D. James
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Think of life as a giant, fat cat you're in charge of. Sometimes you can control it, but other times, it's going to do what it wants and you have to roll with it. And sometimes you can do everything - everything you're s'posed to do- and it'll still shred all the things you hold dear... The only thing you can really do with life is rub its belly and prepare for the worst.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-07-2011
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise.: John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator?
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.: Donald Foster
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If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...: Trieu Thi Trinh
You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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