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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.: Saint Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.: Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.: Don Herold
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I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
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One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake
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I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.: George F. Will (1941 - )
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Sometimes we lose things, and it feels like the entire world is gone. Swallowed up whole by the emptiness left behind. But it’s not true. As long as you’re still pulling in breath, you still have options. Choices.: Susan Kaye Quinn, You Knew the Price, 2021
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
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Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.: Arnold Bennett
Invention is the mother of necessity.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), The Joy of Children, 1964
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