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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.: Robin Norwood
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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.: William Baziotes
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One picture is worth a thousand words.: Fred R. Barnard
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.: Mary Catherine Bateson
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.: Russell P. Askue
No good deed goes unpunished.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.: Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.: Joanna Field
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
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The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.: Gordon Parks
Death likes it when you play hard to get.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 09-20-12
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
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The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.: Bernard Bailey
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.: Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
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Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004