Henry James

"Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."



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Erica Jong

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be�It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for."



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Mary Catherine Bateson

"The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."



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Euripides

"Do not consider painful what is good for you."



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John Scalzi

"If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder."



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Sir Colin Marshall

"The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong."



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Kay Ryan

"Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest."



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Evelyn Rodriguez

"I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness."



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#300 Successfully navigating your home in the dark

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John Green

"It seemed like forever ago, like we�d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."



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Kristin Hunter

"First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms."



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Dorothy C. Fisher

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."



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Jacques Deval

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."



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Helen Keller

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."



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#301 Unpacking the last box

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Confucius

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."



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Hugh Macleod

"People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure./ Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide."



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J. H. Holmes

"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent."



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Claudia Jewett Jarrett

"It is the caring and sharing that count�love is not prevented by the things and the time that you haven�t shared."



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The Dhammapada

"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone."



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Amelia Earhart

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."



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James Gordon

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."



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#303 All the food that comes out of a pig

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Heather Armstrong

"Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing."



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George Burns

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."



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John Updike

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."



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Homer

"Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy."



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#304 Staring into a fire

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Malcolm Gladwell

"Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."



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Kathleen Norris

"Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state."



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Alice Koller

"I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing."



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L. M. Montgomery

"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it."



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#305 When little kids hit the age where they just start saying hi to everyone

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#306 Wearing pyjamas outside of the house

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#307 The Sniff Test

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Barack Obama

"When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us."



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Lord Chesterfield

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."



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Charles Dickens

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."



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Cullen Hightower

"People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done."



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Daniel Raeburn

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



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Robert S. McNamara

"Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated."



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Andre Gide

"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity."



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Joyce Carol Oates

"If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it."



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Colby Dorr Dam

"Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement."



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Irving Wallace

"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."



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Dianne Hales

"Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax."



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Anton Chekhov

"Man is what he believes."



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Ward Jenkins

"The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art."



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Jeff Melvoin

"Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?"



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John F. Kennedy

"We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others."



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Martha Graham

"The body says what words cannot."



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Stephanie Klein

"There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there."



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Seneca

"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."



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Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."



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Francis Beaumont

"Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us."



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Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine

"Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting."



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Bono

"There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious."



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Sir Winston Churchill

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."



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Jules Renard

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."



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Real Live Preacher

"My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential."



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Henry Winkler

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."



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Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."



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George C. Marshall

"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective."



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Jane Austen

"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."



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W. Somerset Maugham

"You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you."



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Minor White

"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."



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George Santayana

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."



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John Green

"Stories don�t just make us matter to each other�maybe they�re also the only way to the infinite mattering he�d been after for so long."



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Randy Pausch

"Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it."



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R. Stevens

"Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!"



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Will Rogers

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."



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#308 Joking with the staff

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Meg Cabot

"No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back."



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Harriet Lerner

"Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to."



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Abigail Adams

"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."



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Bette Davis

"I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure."



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#309 When you’re sleeping and the sounds around you turn into dreams

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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal."



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Henry David Thoreau

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."



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Latin Proverb

"Never give a child a sword."



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Suzanne Gordon

"To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone."



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#310 Laughing in bed

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Eric A. Burns

"It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules."



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Emily Dickinson

"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."



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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."



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Clare Booth Luce

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."



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#311 Finding out what song is in that commercial

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Frank Warren

"Trade your secrets and become who you are."



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Ruben Studdard

"I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself."



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Garth Brooks

"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself."



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Thomas H. Huxley

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."



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#312 The sound of a train coming into the station

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Matthew Oliphant

"There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don�t need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun � and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is."



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Samahria Lyte Kaufman

"Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world."



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Lynn Johnston

"The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!"



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John Howard Payne

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, / Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."



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Kirby Larson

"My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds."



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Voltaire

"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."



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H. G. Wells

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."



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Michelangelo Buonarroti

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."



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L. M. Montgomery

"But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts."



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Pablo Picasso

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."



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Confucius

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."



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Anne Tyler

"It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice."



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#313 Showing old people how to do something on a computer

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#314 Watching bartenders work really fast

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#315 When someone decorates your locker or cubicle for your birthday

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#316 Grabbing a tissue at the last second before sneezing

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#317 When you can hear it snowing

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Henry J. Kaiser

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."



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William Hutton

"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation."



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Cicero

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."



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Jennifer Hudson

"Extreme exercise doesn�t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn�t work that way."



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Leo Buscaglia

"The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."



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Pearl Bailey

"You never find yourself until you face the truth."



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Theophrastus

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."



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Arthur Ashe

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."



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Norman Vincent Peale

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy"



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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."



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Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."



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Wil Wheaton

"Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you."



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Isaac Bashevis Singer

"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."



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George S. Patton

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."



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Thomas A. Edison

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."



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Scott Westerfeld

"I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth."



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Arnold Bennett

"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own."



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Jorge Luis Borges

"Life itself is a quotation."



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Mahatma Gandhi

"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress."



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