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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.: Paul Dudley White
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I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.: Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)
A smile is the shortest distance between two people.: Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.: Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.: Stella Terrill Mann
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You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.: Robert Anton Wilson
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
ALL things great are wound up with all things little.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.: Cher (1946 - )
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.: Russell Baker (1925 - )