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The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.: Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945), The Woman Within, 1954
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.: Robin Morgan
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How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.: Robert Orben
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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
You don't have to die in order to make a living.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 10-14-05
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Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.: Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter, The Human Face, 2001
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.: Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"
When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), 1420
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), speech in Washington D.C., 1865
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Life is a long lesson in humility.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.: Wendell Berry
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.: Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)
Slap a mask on a drunk and you're going to have trouble. It's like having a live reenactment of anonymous forum comments.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Masquerade, 09-09-13
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