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When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.: Owen Wister, The Virginian, Chapter 13, 1929
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 12-30-05
No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 02-15-06
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Desire, ask, believe, receive.: Stella Terrill Mann
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.: Ken Doherty
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.: Rita Rudner
Men are born to succeed, not fail.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.: Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Innocents Abroad
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