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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.: Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open.: Emmet Fox
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.: Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959)
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.: Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.: Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)
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I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho\'s weblog, 03-23-06
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.: Bob Edwards
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Our envy of others devours us most of all.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.: Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.: Peter De Vries
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.: M. F. K. Fisher
If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
If you believe everything you read, better not read.: Japanese Proverb
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