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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.: Kate Winslet, Oscar Acceptance Speech, 02-22-09
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In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 08-24-04
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.: Hasidic Saying
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.: Melody Beattie
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.: Marie Beyon Ray
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.: Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873
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Love is the reason for it all.: Dorothy Fields
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.: Christina Stead (1903 - 1983), House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
All my possessions for a moment of time.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Age is no guarantee of maturity.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, My Name Is John Green. And I am a Nerd., 10-30-07
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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.: Stanley Walker
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.: Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
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