The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home. ~Dennis Kucinich
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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I promote a healthy lifestyle. ~Kim Kardashian
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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