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Knowledge is power.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
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There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old.: Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.: Rita Mae Brown
Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.: Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007
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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.: John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
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I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.: Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.: Neil Diamond (1941 - ), Cracklin' Rose
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What The Dead Men Say, 1964
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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.: Georges Duhamel (1884 - 1966)
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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What if this weren't a hypothetical question?: Unknown
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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