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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
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You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.: John Wooden (1910 - )
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957
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One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
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What's done cannot be undone.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.: G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.: Alice Munro
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