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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford University commencement address, June 12, 2005
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.: Juan Ramon Jiminez
How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.': Maya Angelou (1928 - ), in Daily News
Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.: Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.: Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.: Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.: Julia Sorel
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If you are capable people are happy to play with you.: Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
You know how stubborn young people are, as determined to flee a path their elders propose as they are to take the path their elders oppose.: Joyce Harmon, Mary Bennet and the Haunting of Longbourn, 2025
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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.: Solomon Short
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
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I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.: Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
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