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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.: Dr. Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990)
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It's a dangerous business going out your front door.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.: Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.: Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
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To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.: Joan Klempner
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.: Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991
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Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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