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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.: Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.: Colette (1873 - 1954), The Last of Cheri, 1926
Language is the source of misunderstandings.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.: Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.: Robert Byrne
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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.: Unknown
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.: Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy Comic, 08-15-07
It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish.: Carol Green, House M.D., Adverse Events, 2008
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.: Doris Lessing
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God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?: Steven Wright (1955 - )