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Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979), Advice on acting
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.: Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
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I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.': Unknown
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.: Adrian Mitchell
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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.: Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #72
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.: David T. Wolf (1943 - )
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Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Social Studies (1981)
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Each body has its art...: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.: William Arthur Ward
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.: Bob Thaves, "Frank and Ernest", 1982