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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.: Isabelle Eberhardt
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To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.: Robert Orben
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.: Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 06-07-04
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.: Cullen Hightower
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Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them.: Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
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There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.: Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
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Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31 Remain Frugal, 08-22-04
But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.: Jacques Delille
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