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Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid



Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. ~Norman Vincent Peale



Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld



I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. ~D.H. Lawrence, "Peace and War," Pansies, 1929



We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt



Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. ~Byron, Hours of Idleness



Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. ~Jeff Valdez



Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. ~Malcolm de Chazal Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces. ~Michel de Montaigne



No matter what happens... somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton



Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. ~George Ade



The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ~Hannah Whitall Smith



Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey



Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires... ~Elizabeth Hardwick



Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960



When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~C.G. Jung