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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

—Erica Jong

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Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

—Jane Austen

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Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

—Salma Hayek

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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

—Diana Spencer

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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

—Marilyn Ferguson

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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

—Anna Quindlen

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Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

—Marva Collins

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Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

—Publilius Syrus

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

—Kathleen Norris

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Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

—Alan Moore

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I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

—Joanna Field

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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

—Mary Stewart

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No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

—Napoleon Hill

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