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Like the potato

2008-09-18T09:58:07Z

"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground." ~ Thomas Overbury

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Always doing

2008-09-18T09:57:28Z

"It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing." ~ George Washington

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Let me sow love

2008-09-18T09:57:03Z

"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith." ~ Saint Francis of Assissi

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Nothing against one's conscience

2008-09-18T09:56:34Z

"...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death." ~ Voltaire

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You'll be criticized anyway

2008-09-18T09:56:05Z

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Not waste my life in friction

2008-09-18T09:54:37Z

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Francis Willard

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Forget to be afraid

2008-07-20T20:28:25Z

"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." ~ Lady Bird Johnson

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Trying to create an image

2008-07-20T20:20:26Z

"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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Progress depends on the unreasonable man

2008-07-20T20:18:59Z

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." ~ George Bernard Shaw

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Cure anger

2008-07-20T20:17:38Z

"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods." ~ Epictetus

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