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Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

—W. S. Gilbert

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Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

—Doris Mortman

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Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

—Robert J. Sawyer

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In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

—Oprah Winfrey

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It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

—Jane Austen

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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

—Mother Jones

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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.

—Brian Eno

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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

—Golda Meir

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The beginning is always today.

—Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The way to final freedom is within thy self.

—The Book of the Golden Precepts

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In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.

—Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

—Belle Livingstone

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Just because it's only 'stuff' doesn't mean I can't appreciate it while I have it.

—Starline X. Hodge

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The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

—Lillian Hellman

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