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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.: Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.: The Work of the Chariot
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Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Tweek Vs. Craig, 1999
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
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Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.: John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
Death likes it when you play hard to get.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 09-20-12
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.: Sidney J. Harris
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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.: Dick Werthimer
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It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.: Spanish Proverb
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I am open to receive with every breath I breathe.: Michael Sun
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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