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[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.: Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003
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I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple Confidential 2.0
You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
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The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.: David Richerby
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
Never promise more than you can perform.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.: Alan Saporta
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
Voices that loud are always meant to bully. Do not be bullied. Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and, yes your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.: Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
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