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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.: Marvin Minsky
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You create your opportunities by asking for them.: Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05
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Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.: Adele Brookman
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.: Daniel Raeburn, The New Yorker, 05-01-2006
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.: Bertha Calloway
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.: Jackie Mason (1934 - )
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Never promise more than you can perform.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.: Cindy Gardner
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.: Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
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Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late.: Alison Headley, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006