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Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.: Bible, Old Testament
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I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Interview, 1995
There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.): Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.: Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007
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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.: Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), Poems, Second Series, 1891
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.: Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
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Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.: Joseph Chilton Pearce
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When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)