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My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

—Jane Goodall

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Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

—Marguerite de Valois

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The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.

—Hugh Macleod

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There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

—Elizabeth Aston

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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

—Dame Rose Macaulay

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It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

—Al Franken

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Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.

—Robert C. Pollock

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Good men must be affectionate men.

—Samuel Richardson

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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

—Jane Austen

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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

—Andre Agassi

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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

—Democritus

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This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.

—Joss Whedon

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

—Scottish Proverb

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I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.

—Beverly Sills

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

—Anna Jameson

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