February 2012
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“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to...”
– Dick Cavett
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“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into...”
– Arthur C. Clark
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“I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant...”
– Sir Winston Churchill
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“Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other...”
– James Russell Lowell
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“Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the...”
– Edward Chapin
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“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s...”
– Oprah Winfrey
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“You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.”
– Constantine Peter Cavafy
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
– William James
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“I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn...”
– George Carlin
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“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his...”
– Amy Lowell
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“Anyone who works is a fool. I don’t work - I merely inflict myself upon...”
– Robert Morley
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what...”
– Epicurus
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“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
– Mark Twain
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“After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to...”
– Evelyn Underhill
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“When you can’t have what you want, it’s time to start wanting what...”
– Kathleen A. Sutton
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“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn’t be so anxious.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
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“I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don’t...”
– Buzz Aldrin
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“Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that...”
– J.K. Rowling
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“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a...”
– Horace Walpole
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“Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is...”
– Don Marquis
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“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with...”
– Hyman Rickover
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“The world only goes round by misunderstanding.”
– Charles Baudelaire
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“The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may...”
– Ann Radcliffe
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“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“Sanity is a madness put to good use.”
– George Santayana
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“But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”
– Mitch Albom
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“Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the...”
– George McDonald
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“When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong— or...”
– Albert Guinon
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“Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.”
– Thomas Fuller
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another...”
– Elizabeth Moon
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“We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I...”
– W.H. Auden
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“A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may...”
– William Penn
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“We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow...”
– Barack Obama
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“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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“There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government...”
– Will Rogers
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“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the...”
– George Burns
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“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.”
– Edna Ferber
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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go...”
– Groucho Marx
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“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
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“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people...”
– Scott Adams
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“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises...”
– Elie Wiesel
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“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s...”
– James Gordon
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“Adventure is just bad planning.”
– Roald Amundsen
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“Live well. It is the greatest revenge.”
– The Talmud
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“Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through...”
– Thomas Szasz
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“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove...”
– H.L. Mencken