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  • George Bernard Shaw A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Edgar W. Howe A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Horace Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Anton Chekhov All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Greg Anderson Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • James Baldwin Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Charles McCabe Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • James Baldwin Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Confucius Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Napoleon Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Epicurus Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Mark Twain Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • Richard Bach Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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