Today's Quote

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"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that
I've written for myself. And so my purpose is to have
the utmost fun playing my part."
--Shirley MacLaine

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The things that come to those that wait may be the things
left by those who got there first.
--Unknown

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"To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining
what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are
against."
--Christina Baldwin

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"Many people may listen, but few people actually hear."

--Harvey Mackay

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"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship,
communion or company than a good marriage."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Courtesy is doing unto others what you would like them to do
unto you.

--Unknown

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Classic Quotes by Dame Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) English writer

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

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It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

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Love's a disease. But curable.

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You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

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The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.

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Classic Quotes by James Baldwin (1924-1987) US writer

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.

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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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If you dislike the definition of a word, change it in your case and go by it
-Sunburst-