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Births

• 1825 - Antoinette Brown Blackwell
• 1944 - John Robert Cocker
• 1966 - Mindy Heather Cohn
• 1891 - Earl Browder
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• 2008 - Hamilton Jordan
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• To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

  David McCullough

  Topics in History, Life

  Tags in Responsibility

• It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Must, Human, Satisfied

• The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Greatness
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  Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

  Salman Rushdie

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Judged, Lived

• The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed.

  Shannon A. Thompson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Poetry

• Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

  Maya Angelou

  Topics in Life

• You are someone and you have a right to your life.

  Richard Hugo

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Poetry

• Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Life, Love

• Emotion is the poetry of life.

  Marty Rubin

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Poetry

• Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Topics in Life

• Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

  Arthur Golden

  Topics in Life
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  Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the the life you have imagined.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Dream, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Direction, Confidently

• This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

  Jodi Picoult

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Think

• No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.

  Santosh Kalwar

  Topics in Life, Truth

• Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

  Wil Zeus

  Topics in Inspirational, Life, Truth
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  Living the country life helps you appreciate some of the simpler things, things that make us feel good about ourselves.

  Unknown

  Topics in Country, Life

  Tags in Appreciate, Living

• Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

  D.A. Botta

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Poetry

• Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

  Tonya Hurley

  Topics in Life

• It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from – if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated.

  Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Appreciated

• When a character comes to life, it’s like meeting a new friend for the first time.

  Lynette Mather

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Writing