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A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
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Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher 
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
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