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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. -- German Proverb

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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. -- Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenly and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It's funny that those things your kids did that got on your nerves seem so cute when your grandchildren do them. -- Unknown

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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. -- Frederick Wilcox

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Forgiveness is the final form of love. -- Reinhold Niebuhr

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The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. -- Michael Althsuler

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Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. -- Clarence, Angel 1st Class

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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. - Norman Vincent Peale

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You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future. -- Richard Bach

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I keep six honest serving men They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. -- Rudyard Kipling

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'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. -- Charles Lamb

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I feel blessed to have been raised a Texan, in a part of the world where individualism is strong. Where people can dream big dreams and achieve them. -- George W. Bush

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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -- Galileo Galilei

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living. -- Amanda Bradley

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In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. -- Roger Allen

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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. -- Frank Tibolt

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. -- Aldous Huxley

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I feel that I'm basically decent. I would like to think that, if someone admires me for anything, it's because of decency. -- Don Meredith

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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson

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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. -- Oren Arnold

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving. -- Maxwell Maltz

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Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it, it is good only for wallowing. -- Katherine Mansfield

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We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. -- Alan Chadwick

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily. -- Ivy Baker Priest

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. -- Kahil Gibran

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Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. -- Dr. Seuss

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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. -- Thomas Tusser

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Parliamentary government can work with two parties on the extremes of the political spectrum and nobody in between because the ruling party has almost unchecked power. In our system of checks and balances, it's completely different... the big problems can't be solved without bipartisanship. -- Chet Edwards

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It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others. -- Michel de Montaigne