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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford University commencement address, June 12, 2005
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Never promise more than you can perform.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003
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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-04-10
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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.: Harold Rosenberg
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I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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We're actors - we're the opposite of people.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
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Life is a risk.: Diane Von Furstenberg
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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.: Lady Duff-Gordon (1863 - 1935)
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.: John Sheffield
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