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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.: Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.: Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, 06-26-09
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.: Matthew V. Lewis, House M.D., Last Resort, 2008
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It's not a 9-5 job. It's an every moment you're awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you're doing.: Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Designing for Community with Zero-Advertising Brands, SXSW 2006
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.: Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - )
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.: William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
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Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 12-29-05
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.: William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.: Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?: Steven Wright (1955 - )