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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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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Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.  -- W.S. Anglin

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To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. -- Victoria Moran

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Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere. -- Unknown

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You want to make a difference in your world?  Live a holy life.  Be faithful to your spouse. Pay your bills. Be the employee who does the work and doesn’t complain. Don’t speak one message and live another!  -- Max Lucado

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up." -- Charles M. Schulz

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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. -- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. -- Harold Wilson

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Sometimes, mid-winter, the temperature climbs, the snow melts, the creek runs strong and singing, and the sun shines. It's what we call a 'false spring,' because although it sure feels like spring for a few days, it won't be long until chill and snow return. -- Country Girl (http://mayallseasonsbesweettothee.blogspot.com/2011/01/magical-false-spring.html)

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It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. -- Hubert H. Humphrey

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind. -- Richard Greenberg

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If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm. -- Frank Lane

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May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through. – Irish Blessing

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I belong to a gym now. Well, let me rephrase that. I don’t belong there at all, but I go. -- Ted Alexandro

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If laughter is the best medicine, let's OD together. -- Michael P. Clutton

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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I — not events — have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. — Groucho Marx

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. -- Carl Sagan

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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. -- A.A. Milne

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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -- A.A. Milne

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All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. -- Unknown

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Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice when the sky is blue.  I smile down at children.  I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor.  I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own.  And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't.  I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either.  -- Richelle E. Goodrich

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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. -- Mark Twain

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. -- Robert J. Sawyer