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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.: Norman Douglas
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When you're through changing, you're through.: Bruce Barton
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.: Tom Hanks (1956 - )
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.: J. Bartlett Brebner
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.: Dr. David M. Burns
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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.: Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
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You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
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There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.: Miriam Beard
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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.: Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
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The middle of the road is where the white line is-and that's the worst place to drive.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)