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  • Nathaniel P. Willis Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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  • P. D. James Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Boris Pasternak Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Barton Seaver Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Bobby Cannavale Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
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  • Bobby Orr Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • John Henry Newman Growth is the only evidence of life.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Hermann Goering Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
    Hermann Goering
    German Nazi politician and military leader
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  • Dave Barry Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Juliene Berk Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • Barbara Hepworth Half-way through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again.... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid...
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Barbara Hepworth Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Mark Twain Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • George Orwell Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Leo C. Rosten Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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  • Doug Horton Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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