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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -- Wilson Mizner

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. -- John Lubbock

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Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. -- Lois Wyse

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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. -- Benjamin Franklin

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The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. -- Pema Chodron

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Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. -- Carl Sagan

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Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. -- Albert Einstein

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. -- Russell Baker

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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.-- Freya Stark

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It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.' -- Audrey Hepburn

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I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. -- Erika Harris

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Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. -- Brian Adams

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone

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I believe that the good Lord gave us an finite number of heartbeats, and I'm "bleep" if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street. -- Neil Armstrong

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El que calla otorga. -- Mexican Proverb (Who is silent consents.)

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A little of anything isn't worth a pin; but a wee bit of sense is worth a lot. -- Irish Proverb

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He who fears death enjoys not life. -- Spanish Proverb

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Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. -- Kin Hubbard

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Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom. -- Welsh Proverb

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We have within ourselves
Enough to fill the present day with joy,
And overspread the future years with hope. -- William Wordsworth

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. -- Dorothea Kent

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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.-- Robert A. Heinlein

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The forest is magnificent, yet it contains no perfect trees. -- Gye Fram

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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. -- Maya Angelou

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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. -- Henry David Thoreau

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Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. -- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. -- Thomas Henry Huxley

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Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. -- Tom Robbins

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June is bustin' out all over.The feelin' is gettin' so intense, That the young Virginia creepers Hev been huggin' the bejeepers Outa all the mornin' glories on the fence! -- Richard Rodgers