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E. B. White
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.
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Oprah Winfrey
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Brian Eno
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
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Henry David Thoreau
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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Horace Mann
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Mother Jones
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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Jennifer Louden
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
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Vernon Sanders Law
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
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Charlie Manuel
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.
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