My little old dog a heart-beat at my feet - Edith Wharton

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"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing." - Joseph Roux

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I stand on this bridge, watery moonlight flows beneath me. Passing time, suspended by the night. One shore is the life I've had. The other is the Life. . . I have to go. The time is right.

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"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius

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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." - Malcolm X

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"We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

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"People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. They therefore remain bound." -- James Allen

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"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end." - Gilda Radner

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"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies, but not everyone lives." - A. Sachs

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"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." - Margaret Atwood

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint." - Albert Schweitzer

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"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." -- Henry Ward Beecher

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"He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it." - Heather Armstrong

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"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." - J. K. Rowling

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"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." - John Barth

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“Every crown is made for a head, but every head is not made for a crown.” - Unknown

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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." - Kurt Vonnegut

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"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien

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"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." - Anne Frank

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“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” ― Napoleon Hill

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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." - Robert Frost

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“The welfare of the people is the ultimate law." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ― Winston Churchill

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“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” - Robert Schuller

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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer

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"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - Wilson Mizner

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"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells

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"You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms..." - Anna Akhmatova

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"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up--they have no holidays." - Henny Youngman

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“If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.” ― Joan Welsh

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"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer." - Dan Brown

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"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." - George Herbert

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"If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter." - Norah Jones

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“If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.” - Arabian proverb

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"It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people." - Ian McEwan

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"They're only truly great who are truly good." - George Chapman

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"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." - Sir Winston Churchill

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"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends." - Herbert Hoover

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“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” ― Steve Jobs

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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash

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"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect." - Ted Turner

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"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all." - Ernest Shackleton

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"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent." - J. H. Holmes

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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape..." - Pablo Picasso

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"When you have given nothing, ask for nothing." - Albanian proverb

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"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston Churchill

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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.” ― Calvin Coolidge

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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France

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"The harder I work, the luckier I get." - Samuel Goldwyn

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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein

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"Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others." - David Assael

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“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.” ― Kathleen Casey Theisen

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"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug." - Helen Keller

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"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug." - Helen Keller

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

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"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." - George Moore

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"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." - Anne Tyler

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"My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August." - Ronnie Shakes

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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Who are you, and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith." - from the movie "Police Squad"

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"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." ~ Aldous Huxley

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"It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space." - Thomas K. Mattingly II

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"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." - Baltasar Gracian

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"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." ~ James Michener

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“The only people with whom you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.” ― John E. Southard

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"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile." - Goldie Hawn

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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit." - Sir Walter Scott

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"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self." - Millicent Fenwick

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“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” ― Mark Twain

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“Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.” - Unknown

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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ― Helen Keller

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“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.” ― James Allen

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"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources." ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." - Charles Caleb Colton

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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love. ~ Sophocles

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"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible." - Frank Moore Colby

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"Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value." - Ann Radcliffe

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"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." - Whitney Young

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"A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful." - Maurice Sendak

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You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” ― Adlin Sinclair

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"Trust yourself, and you will know how to live." ~ Goethe

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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later." - Mitch Hedberg

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"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." - Mahatma Gandhi

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"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody." - Franklin P. Adams

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"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth." - George Burns

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"Change is the only constant." ~ Heraclitus

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"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." - Rodney Dangerfield

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"Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else." ~ Ivern Ball

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"I feel very strongly that change is good, because it stirs up the system." - Ann Richards

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"Men willingly believe what they wish." ~ Julius Caesar

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"More often than not, a hero's most epic battle is the one you never see; its the battle that goes on within him or herself." - Kevin Smith

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"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

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"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." - Roseanne Barr

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"The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts." ~ Lama Yeshe

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"People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt." - Mary Pettibone Poole

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"The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going." - Peter McWilliams

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“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman

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"The imagination is man's power over nature." - Wallace Stevens

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"Take the attitude of a student. Never be too big to ask questions. Never know too much to learn something new." ~ Og Mandino

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"To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak." - C. Kent Wright

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"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." - Bil Keane

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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein

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“There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” - Archibald McLeish

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"Cherish your wilderness." - Maxine Kumin

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"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting." - Charles Bukowski

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"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society." - Judith Martin

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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

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"Success is a journey, not a destination." - Ben Sweetland

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"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." ~ Vince Lombardi

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"Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them." ~ Jackson Brown

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"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." ~ Jacob Bronowski

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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values." - Norman Thomas

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"Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor." - Laurence J. Peter

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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." ~ Thomas Jefferson

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"The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity." - Ilya Prigogine

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"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." - Chuck Klosterman

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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one.” ― Mark Twain

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“It's never too late--in fiction or in life--to revise." - Nancy Thayer.

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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

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"I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. ~ Helen Keller

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"The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters." - Alan Bennett

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"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." - Joel Hawes

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"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." - Clarence Thomas

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"If you fail, learn, and move on--you're growing. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

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"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die." - Marquis de Vauvenargues

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"Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work." - Gallagher

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"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry

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"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others." ~ Edelman

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"Henceforth, I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune." - Walt Whitman

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"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life." - John F. Kennedy

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"Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes." ~ Gordon B. Hinkley

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"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them." - Benjamin Disraeli

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"Feel good, be good and do good." ~ Yogi Bhajan

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"We can't all be heroes, because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." ~ Will Rogers

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"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare

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"I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life." - Eugene O'Neill

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“History repeats itself, but each time the price goes up.” - Unknown

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"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other." - Jascha Heifetz

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"A place for everything, everything in its place." - Benjamin Franklin

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"I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens." - Randy K. Milholland

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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

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"When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope." ~ Anonymous

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"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." - William H. Sheldon

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"He who is brave is free." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest." - Hermann Hesse

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"Faith is the daring of the soul to go further than it can see." ~ William Newton Clark

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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw

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"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." - Fred Allen

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"Leap, and the net will appear." - John Burroughs

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"There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."" - Jerry Seinfeld

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"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." - Thomas á Kempis

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“It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.” - Julie de Lespinasse

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“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” ― Johnny Cash

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