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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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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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My mother said, Don't worry about what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well. -- Lord Mountbatten

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Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! --  Steve Maraboli

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I have great faith in fools. Self-confidence, my friends call it. -- Edgar Allen Poe

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It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up. -- C.J. Redwine

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When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old. -- Lady Bird Johnson

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May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love. -- Ada V. Hendricks

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It’s not the money you have, or the things you get (or have taken from you) that determine your joy, trust in others, or happiness. Trust, joy, hope, faith, happiness, and love are gifts you give to yourself. No one can take them from you. -- Leeanne Rebic Hay

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She wasn’t complaining about what life had dealt her.Only that this was what it was, and that she was moving on and succeeding. -- Don McElfresh

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Due to the lack of experienced trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed for three weeks. -- Unknown

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. -- Johnny Carson

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The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful...and decide what you want and need and must do. -- Zadie Smith

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I don’t know about you, but I like winter. I like gray skies and brisk walks on brisk mornings and reading a good book by the fireplace. -- Ron Rozelle

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Don't put a ceiling on yourself. -- Oprah Winfrey

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If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. -- Phil Pastoret

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True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. -- Joseph Addison

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sidney J. Harris

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. -- Pearl S Buck

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! -- Charles Dickens

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. -- Michael Pritchard

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I am a human, and I have dignity. -- Lizmari Collazo

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I like friends who challenge me. I like friends who think for themselves. I think allowing such openness allows people to become something extraordinary. -- Jamie Anne Richardson

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I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something's a big deal for us, it's only become a big deal in the space between our ears. -- Gillian Anderson

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My life is my message. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Y cuando nos separamos, es otoño en mi corazón. -- LaVyrle Spencer

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Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside. -- Bonnie Hunt

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There’s no true, dependable privacy when we’re tapping or typing. -- Frank Bruni

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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -- Henry A. Kissinger

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Grow old along with me the best is yet to be. -- Robert Browning

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 For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We need to learn and embrace patience. Patience is a holy key that will unlock the door to a more fulfilling life. Behind the blessed door of patience are found better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, wise masters, and a more compassionate world. -- Steve Maraboli

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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 Why, if time is ultimately our most precious asset, do we spend our days mindlessly filling it with unnecessary burdens that detract from our happiness? -- Jonathan Look Jr.

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In the end these things matter most:   
How well did you love?  
How fully did you love?  
How deeply did you learn to let go?
-–Buddha

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 As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. -- Anouk Aimee

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Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings. -- W. Lee Grant

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully. -- Randy Pausch

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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. -- Mortimer Adler

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I love cold, rainy weather. -- Catherine Bell

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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. -- Tallulah Bankhead

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hey won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions. -- Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

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Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. -- Bern Williams

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The wisest mind has something yet to learn. -- George Santayana

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Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. -- William Arthur Ward

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Within a few decades, there will be no white majority in this country -- no majority of any kind, in fact. We will be a nation of racial and ethnic minorities, and we will only prosper if everyone learns to give and take. -- Eugene Robinson

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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. -- James M. Barrie

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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. -- Eckhart Tolle

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. -- George Dennison Prentice

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Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home.
 -- April Foiles

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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place. -- Thomas Paine

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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. -- J. K. Rowling

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I guess I’ve always been an optimist. I don’t know how you can live any other way. -- George McGovern

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Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?  -- Robert Fulghum

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When you're through changing, you're through. -- Bruce Barton

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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies-images of potential tomorrows. -- Alvin Toffler

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When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for. -- Katherine Heigl

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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. -- Moliere

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Good words bring good feelings to the heart. Speak with kindness, always. -- Rod Williams

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I hate to fly . . . Every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.-- Barry Sonnefeld

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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.  -- Grenville Kleiser

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It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. -- Dale Carnegie

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Autumn arrives, array'd in splendid mein; Vines, cluster'd full, add to the beauteous scene, And fruit-trees cloth'd profusely laden, nod, Complaint bowing to the fertile sod. -- Farmer's Almanac, 1818

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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. -- Randy Pausch

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When I'm 70, I hope I'll be speeding up and not slowing down. -- Mark Cuban

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I was never good at math. I was so-so at arithmetic, but algebra and geometry wore me out. -- T. Boone Pickens

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I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. -- Paul Theroux

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Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will. -- Josh Hartnett

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There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. -- Randy Pausch

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When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. -- Mark Twain

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Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do. -- Lee Entrekin

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. --  James Oppenheim

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Above all else: go out with a sense of humor.  It is needed armor.  Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. -- Hugh Sidey

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The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. -- Randy Pausch

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Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it. -- Robert Brault

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You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. -- Bonnie Pruden

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It is better to wear out than to rust out. -- Richard Cumberland

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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. -- Thomas Jefferson

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The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. -- Michael Friedman

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By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer. -- Helen Hunt Jackson

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I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. -- Ann Richards

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It is raining here while I am sharing these beautiful quotes about rain with you all. Everything is looking so beautiful. I love rain, everyone does. Its so refreshing. Almost everyone loves being in it. I also love listening to it at night while I am warm and cozy in my bed. -- Roy Miller

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I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too. --  Steve Martin

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The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. -- James Newman

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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys. -- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Begin doing what you want to do now.  We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake. -- Marie Ray

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person? -- La Rochefoucauld

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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. -- Fred Allen

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Youth is not chronological age but the state of growing, learning, and changing. -- Charles Reich

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Cat said, "I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave."  -- Rudyard Kipling

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My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, “Jeff, One day you’ll understand it’s harder to be kind than to be clever.” -- Jeff Bezos

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Last May I turned 84. I woke up that morning and realized that half my life was now over. -- T. Boone Pickens

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Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetness into the heavenly wine. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. -- Isaac Newton

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They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions. -- Isaac Asimov

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It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. -- Elizabeth Taylor

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The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. -- George Bernard Shaw

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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of. -- Socrates

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler

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Summer is almost over and I couldn't be happier. -- Parenting Magazine

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Love like you've never been hurt. -- Satchel Paige

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. -- George Eliot

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. -- Leo Buscaglia

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What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. -- Arnold H. Glasow

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Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat. -- Jim Davis

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A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman, of the next generation. -- J. F. Clarke

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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people. -- Orson Welles

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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. -- Bertrand Russell

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Our world is polarized, yet few of us live in the extremes. In “never” land, that is. And, even if we do live there, it is often a temporary home until circumstances change “never” to a more sheltered “sometimes” or “maybe.” -- Ruth Ann Janson

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I’ve changed my mind about what it means to change your mind. It doesn’t mean you lack conviction, just that you have a new perspective. -- Ruth Ann Janson

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Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing. -- Scott Westerfeld

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates

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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces. -- Judith Viorst

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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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

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We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future. -- Ray Bradbury

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The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment. -- Tim Kreider

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. -- Robert Frost

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No choice is stupid if it comes from you. Never let anyone take away the choices in your heart. It's what makes you one of a kind. -- Stewart Lewis

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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. —Ellen Goodman

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If you don't learn to laugh at your troubles, you'll have nothing to laugh at when you grow old. -- Edgar Watson Howe

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My friends are my estate. -- Emily Dickinson

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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. -- John Ruskin

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The impact of Sally Ride and women like her cannot be overestimated. She proved it was possible to work in space physics and as a space station scientist and be female at the same time. -- Amy Mainzer

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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. -- Oliver Goldsmith

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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown

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It is all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself. But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem. -- R. E. Phillips

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. -- Lucy (aka Charles Schultz)

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The only constant is change itself. -- James Tanner

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I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. -- Anna Quindlen

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If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree. -- W.B. Yeats

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There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you. -- J. K. Rowling

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have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something. -- Jackie Mason

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There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. -- Alice Thomas Ellis

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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow

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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. -- Alvin Toffler

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Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans. -- Alf Landon

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The long gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country. -- General Douglas MacArthur

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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. -- Richard Feynman

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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. -- Unknown

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As long as the political debate is about painting rivals as obstructionists and class warriors and not about resuscitating economic growth, we’re courting a disastrous slowdown. -- Dallas Morning News editorial 07/11/2012

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. -- Jonathan Winters

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When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly. -- George Washington

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce

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We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. -- Sirius Black

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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? -- Kelvin Throop III

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I need my sleep. I make no bones about it. I need eight hours a day, and at least ten at night. -- Bill Hicks

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The more a man knows, the more he forgives. -- Catherine the Great

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. -- John Adams

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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. -- William Allen White

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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free. -- Paul Simon

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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave this way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it. -- Leo Buscaglia

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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. -- John Adams

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. -- Franklin P. Jones

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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them. --  A.A. Milne

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Life’s Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. -- Benjamin Franklin

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A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. -- Dave Meurer

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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust

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No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. -- John Adams

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I’m far more interested in the ties that bind than the spaces that divide. -- Jennifer Hritz

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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. -- Abraham Lincoln

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Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. -- Unknown

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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. -- Lester J. Pourciau

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. -- Herbert Bayard Swope

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They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. -- Confucius

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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. -- St. Basil

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For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. -- Clarence E. Hodges

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June 14, 1946 -- This was the best day that happened to me when I was three years old (and every year since). It just took 19 years before I knew it. -- dh

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Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. -- Douglas Adams

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Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. -- Unknown

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -- Agatha Christie

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The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it. -- William James

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Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude

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She had the Midas touch. Everything she touched turned into a muffler. -- Lisa Smerling

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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. -- Mae West

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Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered. -- Stephen Cosgrove

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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. -- Hannah Whitall Smith

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Our heirs, whatever or whoever they may be, will explore space and time to degrees we cannot currently fathom. They will create new melodies in the music of time. There are infinite harmonies to be explored. -- Clifford Pickover

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust

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With years a richer life begins, The spirit mellows: Ripe age gives tone to violins, Wine, and good fellows. -- John Townsend Trowbridge

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. -- Sir Francis Bacon

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If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all. -- Noam Chomsky

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I"m so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me. -- Zig Ziglar

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"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. -- A.A. Milne

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Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing. -- Cicero

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All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought. -- Robert Brault

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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. -- Stephen Hawking

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With that in mind, chickens are not simply fluffy, egg-producing birds found in farmyards across America; they are something much more vicious and amazing than many people realize. They are dinosaurs. -- Shannon Francis

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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. -- Dale Carnegie

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Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows. -- Helen Keller

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Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. -- Mark Twain

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Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. -- Lao Tzu

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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams

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Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. -- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can dothat. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy. -- Randy K. Milholland

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The best way to predict the future is to create it. -- Peter F. Drucker

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The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. -- Barbara Hall

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If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving a baby's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. -- Dave Barry

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -- Bertrand Russell

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If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant. -- Sefer Hasidim

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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -- Winston Churchill

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Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old. -- Edward Fitzgerald

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself. --Cyril Tourneur

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Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy

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Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. -- Michelle Burford

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In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown

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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. -- Albert Camus

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I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others. -- Jennifer Louden

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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. -- Robertson Davies

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk. -- Doug Larson

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April is a promise that May is bound to keep. -- Hal Borland

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If youre going through hell, keep going. -- Winston Churchill

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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room. -- Christie Todd Whitman

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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
-St. Basil

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We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can. -- Cullen Hightower

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One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking. -- Louis L’Amour as Bendigo Shafter

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. -- Albert Einstein

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I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. -- Bill Dana

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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. -- Nancy Astor

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If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. -- Robert Brault

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It is a little embarrassing that, after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other. -- Aldous Huxley

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

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You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the RESULT of current thinking. -- Albert Einstein

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Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. -- Louie Pasteur

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you. -- Daniel Raeburn

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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. -- George Santayana

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When you go out of the door in the morning, choose happiness. -- Michael J. Fox

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein

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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -- Jonathan Kozol

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If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. -- Dianna Booher

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Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times. -- Joan Lunden

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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. -- Will Rogers

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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. -- Germaine Greer

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief. -- Joseph Addison

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If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. -- Oprah Winfrey

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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. -- Douglas Adams

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The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see. -- Barry N. Kaufman

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There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. -- Bernard Meltzer

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Why give in to rudeness, when you can fight back with kindness. -- Donna A. Favors

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Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. -- Elwood P. Dowd

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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. -- Rachel Carson

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I never learned anything while I was talking. -- Larry King

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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. -- Thomas Jefferson

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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. -- Thomas Jefferson

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. -- Jerry Chin

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. -- Abraham Lincoln

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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes). -- Walt Whitman

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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -- William James

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Bloom where you are planted. -- Saint Francis de Sales

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Don’t post anything online you wouldn’t want your grandmother to read -- Karen Emanuelson

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- William James

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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can. And I will keep doing so till the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. -- Abraham Lincoln

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed. -- Mother Theresa

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Compliments are the helium that fills everyone’s balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life’s troubles and land safely on the other side. -- Bernie S. Siegel

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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -- Charles Darwin

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If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -- Mother Teresa

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Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. -- Jack Balousek

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Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. -- Jack Balousek

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -- Henry David Thoreau

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. -- Woodrow Wilson

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. -- Agatha Christie

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. -- Agatha Christie

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. -- Sir H. Davy

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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. -- Shakti Gawain

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What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They’re the guiding lights of a life. -- Jimmy Carter

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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. -- Arthur Ashe

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We are all alike, on the inside. -- Mark Twain

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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. -- Robert Heinlein

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Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. -- Saint Francis of Assisi

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. -- Plutarch

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I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life. -- Pablo Casals

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I've become the keeper of the record. -- Barry J. Ewell

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I've learned my place in the link of time. -- Barry J. Ewell

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Tell the children about me. -- Barry J. Ewell
http://barrysblog.mygenshare.com/posts/46-journey-of-a-genealogist-1-tell-the-children-about-me

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

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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. -- Emo Phillips

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Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." -- Confucius

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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

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I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't
know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it. -- Bill Cosby

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time. -- Josh Billings

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. -- Joan Lunden

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Be decisive. Don’t be afraid to be wrong. We all make mistakes, but you’ll never accomplish anything if you never act on it. -- Ellyn Sanna

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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. -- John Wesley

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. -- Robert Benchley

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. -- Unknown

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The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create. -- Leonard Sweet

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A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. -- Peter Marshall

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A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. -- Peter Marshall

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You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor. -- Smiley Blanton

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You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are. -- Jeph Jacques

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. -- Henri Nouwen

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I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years . . . Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions. -- Wilbur Wright, 1908

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So, in addition to depending on divine providence, I suggest we hope that goodwill, common sense, and old-fashioned human perseverance will see us through. -- Ron Rozelle