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Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.

—Patricia Russell-McCloud

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The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

—Holly Lisle

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

—Edgar Allan Poe

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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

—Annie Dillard

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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

—Jawaharlal Nehru

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I always advice people - Don't wait ! Do something when you are young, when you have no responsibilities. Invest time in yourself to have great Experiences that are going to enrich you, then you can't possibly lose.

—Steve Jobs

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

—Juvenal

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We are who people think we are.

—David Foster

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To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

—Charles Buxton

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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

—Joseph Joubert

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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

—Pablo Picasso

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This mystery of life is what really is at the heart of our concern, because we say it is a gift so stupendous, so magnificent, so mysterious that no one but God has any rights over it.

—Theodore Hesburgh

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I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

—Steven Wright

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

—John Muir

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