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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

—Jean de La Fontaine

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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.

—Susan B. Anthony

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

—John Muir

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I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

—Michael Jordan

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You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

—Julia Child

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Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.

—Ward Jenkins

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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

—Eric Hoffer

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I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.

—Jane Austen

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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

—Mary Catherine Bateson

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There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.

—Lee Iacocca

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We only do well the things we like doing.

—Colette

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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

—Plutarch

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

—Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

—Thomas Carlyle

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The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

—Edward Clarke

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