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Never promise more than you can perform.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.: W. Lee Grant
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.: Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.: Henry C. Link
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students
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Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.: John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.: Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007)
Children are all foreigners.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.: Marcus Brigstocke
Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course.": Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer%uFFFDs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.: Ice T., Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 06-13-12
Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939
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