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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.: Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.: Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988
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Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.: Coleman Cox
I'm a born-again atheist.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.: Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), New Hampshire Democratic Primary Speech, 01-08-08
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.: Frank Moore Colby
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Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.: Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.: Lenin (1870 - 1924)
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Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.: David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
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We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.: Gene McSweeney, Grey Water Photography, 06-04-2006
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)