"When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs." - Thomas A Kempis

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"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem

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"I generally avoid temptation, unless I can't resist it." - Mae West

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Piglet: "How do you spell love?" Pooh: "You don't spell it, you feel it." - Winnie the Pooh

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"World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it." - Peace Pilgrim

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"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it." - Brian Tracy

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"Every day, go out of your way to do something kind." - Anonymous

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"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." - Gerald Good

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"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about." - Angela Schwindt

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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not." - Andre Gide

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"Every quality, taken to extremes, becomes a weakness." - Paulo Coelho

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"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." - James Thurber

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"There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them." - John Boyne

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"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius." - Fulton J. Sheen

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"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power." - Shirley MacLaine

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"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners." - Laurence Sterne

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"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." - Saint Jerome

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"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain

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"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon

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"A girl called me the other day and said, 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home." - Rodney Dangerfield

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"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." - George Bernard Shaw

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"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." - Jack Benny

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"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one." - Jessica Savitch

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"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed." - Gordon Parks

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"We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself." - Jimmy Carter

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"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." - Victor Hugo

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"I've done the calculation, and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not." - Fran Lebowitz

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"I have opinions of my own--strong opinions--but I don't always agree with them." - George Bush

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass

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"When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life." - Anna Quindlen

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"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working." - Anonymous

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"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." - Abraham Lincoln

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"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz

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“Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

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"It is never too late to be wise." - Daniel Defoe

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"Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it." - Benjamin Franklin

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"A lot of people never use their initiative because nobody told them to." - Banksy

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"We go where our vision is." - Joseph Murphy

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"When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems." - Lama Yeshe

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"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." - Charles W. Chesnutt

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels." - Thomas Carlyle

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"Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." - Sue Grafton

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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." - Moliere

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"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali

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"No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks." - Louis Gerstner

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"A certain amount of opposition is a good for a man. Kites rise against, and not with the wind." - Lao Tzu

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"Hearing kind words, be grateful. Hearing harsh speech, be empathic." - Cheng Yen

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"“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow." -Goethe

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"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." - Emile Zola

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"A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age." - Cicero

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"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo

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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." - Nikita Khrushchev

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"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse." - Bruce Cockburn

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"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." - Lucille Ball

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"We will be known forever by the tracks that we leave." - Native American proverb

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"Miracles do not break the laws of nature, they are actually based on them." - Choa Kok Sui

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“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” ― Napoleon Hill

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“Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.” - Elsa Maxwell

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“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” - Albert Camus

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"All serious daring starts from within." - Eudora Welty

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"The willingness to trust others--even when you know you may be taken advantage of--is the cornerstone of becoming civilized." - O. A. Battista

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"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr.

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"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of our superiority to all that befalls us." - Romain Gary

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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison

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"The wrongdoer is often the person who has left something undone rather than the person who has done something." - Marcus Aurelius

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"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw

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"Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don’t speak." - Anonymous

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"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" - George Eliot

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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." - William Morris

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"There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well." - Joyce Brothers

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"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new." - Ursula K. Le Guin

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"Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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"No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream." - R. Buckminster Fuller

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"Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us." - W. N. Rieger

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"There’s only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

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"Only a mediocre person is always at his best." - William Somerset Maugham

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"People change and forget to tell each other." - Lillian Hellman

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"A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?" - Robert Browning

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"More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity." - Francois Gautier

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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of." - quoted by Benjamin Franklin

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"Nature goes her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it, the next wish is to change again." - Samuel Johnson

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"In everything, one must consider the end." - Jean de La Fontaine

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"Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when Wrong, to be put right." - Carl Schurz

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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously." - Henry Kissinger

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"Always be a little kinder than necessary." - James M. Barrie

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"Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable." - Anonymous

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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” - Soren Kierkegaard

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"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." - Cynthia Ozick

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“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.” ― Margaret Thatcher

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"Take care of the downtime and uptime takes care of itself." ~ William Forbes Rogers

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"Truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

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"There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself." ~ Guy Finley

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"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." ~ Paul Boese

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"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." ~ Bill Gates

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"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." ~ A. J. Muste

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"There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner." - G. K. Chesterton

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"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make of it." - Marcus Aurelius

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"Laughter has no foreign accent." - Paul B. Lowney

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"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness." - Thomas Wolfe

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"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." - Samuel Johnson

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"Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures." - J. Bronowski

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"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality." - Bryan Singer

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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh

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"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." - Carl Rogers

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"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln

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"It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so for oneself." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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"If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless." - Dalai Lama

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"Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could." ~ Wayne Dyer

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"There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment." ~ Malcolm Hein

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"Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable." - Pythagoras

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"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter." - William Somerset Maugham

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"Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers." - Agnes Thornton

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Explanation given by a pupil for not joining in discussion: “I think l’ll learn more by listening. Anything I would say I already know.” - quoted by The Christian Science Monitor

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"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. " - Samuel Johnson

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"Work to become, not to acquire." ~ Elbert Hubbard

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"You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future." - Anonymous

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"People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take on them." - Epictetus

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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." - Leo Aikman

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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." - Virginia Woolf

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"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." Latin Proverb

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"Experience is the teacher of all things." - Julius Caesar

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"Mishaps are like knives that either serve or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." - James Russell Lowell

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"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

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"Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to." - H. M. Jones

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“No steps backward.” - Horace

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"People more often need to be reminded than informed." ~ Dr. Samuel Johnson

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"Everyone else is also just winging it." - Unknown

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"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end." ~ Margaret Thatcher

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"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining." - Anne Lamott

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“We are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others.” - Unknown

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“Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.” - David Letterman

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“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” ― Margaret Thatcher

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“Cultivate money and you grow rich. Cultivate mind and you raise culture.” - Unknown

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"Feedback is the breakfast of champions." - Ken Blanchard

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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain

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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Brooks Adams

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"Without discipline, there's no life at all." - Katharine Hepburn

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"Improvement begins with I." - Arnold H. Glasgow

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"I am not afraid...I was born to do this." - Joan of Arc

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“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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"My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life like one long university education that I never had." - Richard Branson

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"If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty, shattered spaces." - Oprah Winfrey

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"Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together." ~ Marilyn Monroe

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"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change." ~ Mignon McLaughlin

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"The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children." ~ Gandhi

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"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." ~ Picasso

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"Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life." ~ Seneca

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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." ~ Jerry Garcia

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"Be a good listener. Unlike your mouth, your ears will never get you in trouble." ~ Frank Tyger

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"Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does." - Evan Esar

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"Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables." - Spanish Proverb

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"Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'." - Annie Lennox

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"If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious." - Mignon McLaughlin

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"Friendship with one's self is all important because, without it, one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Everything in the Universe is within you. Ask all from yourself." - Rumi

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"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." - Albert Einstein

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"Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow." - Swedish Proverb

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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life." - Golda Meir

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"Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal." - Seneca

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"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together." - Francesco Petrarca

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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin

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"The real leader has no need to lead; he is content to point the way." - Henry Miller

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“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” - Confucius

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"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home." - Bill Cosby

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"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week." - Charles Darwin

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"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

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"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo

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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb

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“Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.” ― Lee Haney

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"Character develops itself in the stream of life." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - William Van Horne

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"May you live to be a hundred--and decide the rest for yourself." - Irish proverb

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"Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears." -Laird Hamilton

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"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore

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"All people want is someone to listen." - Hugh Elliott

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"One chance is all you need." - Jesse Owens

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"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs." - Unknown

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"Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met." - Marguerite Duras

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"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory." - Bruce Lee

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"To think and to observe humanely means to think and observe apolitically." - Thomas Mann

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"We do not believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: “I do not know.” - André Maurois

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"They speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled." - Carl Gustav Jung

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"Enquire not what boils in another's pot." - Thomas Fuller

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"Key to life: Do what you gotta do, so you can do what you wanna do." - @RevRunWisdom

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"Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty." - Woodrow Wilson

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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." - Albert Einstein

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"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important." - Thomas Huxley

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"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." - Alexander Pope

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"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy." - Alfred North Whitehead

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“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” ― Lewis B. Smedes

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"You'll be surprised to know how far you can go from the point where you thought it was the end." - Unknown

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

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"A good conscience is a continual feast." - Robert Burton

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"True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table. Luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home." - John Hay

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"Certainly it is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is." - Wilhelm von Humboldt

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"People think responsibility is hard to bear. It’s not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence." - Henry Kissinger

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"A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue." - Russian proverb

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"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open." — Frank Zappa

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“It always seems impossible, until it’s done.” - Nelson Mandela

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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ― Dalai Lama

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"Never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions you have no respect." - Anonymous

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"Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage." - Robert Louis Stevenson

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"There must be no tolerance of intolerance. There must he no freedom to destroy freedom." - Karl Jaspers

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"Who laughs, lasts." - Wilfred Peterson

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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost

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"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you." - Unknown

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"Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." - Lucille Ball

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