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Friday, August 16, 2002 |
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." --W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
10:47:29 AM 
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"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity." --Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
10:46:06 AM
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"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace." --Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence." --Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
10:45:22 AM
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"It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be." --Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
10:44:06 AM
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"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature." --Charles Dickens
10:43:18 AM
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"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing." --Henry S. Haskins
10:42:46 AM
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." --Epictetus (50 AD - 138 AD)
10:42:06 AM
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"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods." --Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
10:41:30 AM
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." --Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
10:28:21 AM
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