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Harold S. Geneen


Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it.

Marjorie Holmes


What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003


Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

Ben Shahn


I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Mary McCarthy


We are the hero of our own story.

Maya Lin


To fly we have to have resistance.

Eleanor Roosevelt


Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

John Fellows Akers


After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.

Thomas Jefferson


Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

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Thomas Fuller


Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

Tom Robbins


Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)


There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003


The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.

George Bernard Shaw


Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

J. Gustav White


One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.

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Don Marquis


Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Earl of Chesterfield


Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

Sidney Greenberg


A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

Eric Hoffer, True Believer or Theory of leisure class


He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

Abbie Hoffman, In response to the success of his book; Steal this Book


Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List.

Maya Angelou


My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself.

Walt Whitman


My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.

Robin Green


Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.

Bruce Barton


Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Alan Bleasdale


Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Joseph Murphy


We go where our vision is.

Hippocrates


Walking is man's best medicine.

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Abraham Lincoln


It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

William Shakespeare, "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1


Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash


Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Henry Drummond


To get to heaven we must take it with us.

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Zelda


Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Julie Burchill


Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

Oswald Spengler


This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Vida D. Scudder


Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Ludwig van Beethoven


I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Greek proverb


A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

Frederick Buechner


If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

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