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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Count Diodati, 1807
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.: Pierre Charron
See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
The price of greatness is responsibility.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.: Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
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The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.: Tina Fey, Vogue Interview, 2010
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When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.: Lord Falkland (1610 - 1643)
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I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.: Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.: Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004