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There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!: Charles Swindoll
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.: Ronnie Shakes
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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Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.: Eugene Mirman, LHS Commencement Speech, 2009
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.: Edwin P. Whipple
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.: Anonymous
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), Unkempt Thoughts
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.: Donald Trump (1946 - ), Press Conference, February 16, 2017
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009