The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
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-- Anonymous The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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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?
-- François de La Rouch If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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-- Luther Burbank, dying words Travel Services He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
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-- Friedrich Nietzsch I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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-- Albert Einstein Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- Barbara Howar Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
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-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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-- Nick Mirov Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
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... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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