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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.: Peter De Vries
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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.: Katharine Whitehorn
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The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Sense and Sensibility, 1811
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I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.: Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.: Jerry Chin
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
We can’t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.: Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
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[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.': Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.: Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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The only cure for grief is action.: George Henry Lewes
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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