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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
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Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.: Christina Baldwin
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.: Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618)
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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.: Walter Goodman
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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.: Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.: Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.: Harold B. Lee (1899 - 1973)
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People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.: Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
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Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.: Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 09-27-07
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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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I think the world is run by 'C' students.: Al McGuire
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