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My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
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Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.: Paulette Bates Alden, 'Legacies,' Feeding the Eagles, 1988
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.: Robert Downey Jr., Entertainment Weekly, 11-21-08
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.: Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.: Rita Holt
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.: Josiah Quincy
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My work is a game, a very serious game.: M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
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Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.: Wil Wheaton, WWdN: In Exile, 12-14-2011
I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho\'s weblog, 03-23-06
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.: Whoopi Goldberg
You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period.: Steven Conrad, Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), No. 1333
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