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Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.: Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)
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This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.: Colleen Wainwright, communicatrix, 03-23-2006
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The talent should speak for itself.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.: Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.: David Russell
The way we see the problem is the problem.: Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.: George Ade (1866 - 1944)
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.: Lord Acton
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.: Edwin Schlossberg
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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
Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!: R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.: Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
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She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.: Marita Bonner
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
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True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004), Dear Me (1977)
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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