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"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel."

John Churton Collins

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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

-Franklin P. Adams

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"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!"

Lawrence G. Lovasik

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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

-Joseph Campbell

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"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

-John Hench

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"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces."

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.


- Sir Max Beerbohm

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"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."

Thomas Fuller

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Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

-Aesop

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" Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."

Albert Camus

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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

-Oprah Winfrey

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"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

Jonathan Swift

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We must be our own before we can be another's.


-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."

Lucretius

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Stevenson

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"It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer."

Norma Shearer

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.


-John Wooden

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"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."

Charles Caleb Colton

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The world remains ever the same.


-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness."

Anthea Turner

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.


-Oscar Wilde

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"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world.

-Hal Borland

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"Man lives in a world of meaning."

George H. Mead

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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectator.


-Ansel Adams

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"A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye."

Bernard Malamud

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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.


-Neil Armstrong

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"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."

Napoleon Bonaparte

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.


-Nelson Boswell

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"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."

William Allen White

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What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are.

-C.S. Lewis

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"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."

Alfred Hitchcock

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"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

-General George S. Patton

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"And that's the way it is."

Walter Cronkite

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."

Otto Weininger

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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.


-Louisa May Alcott

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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

- Joseph Addison

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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

-Henri Frederic Amiel

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

- Mark Twain