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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.: Roseanne Barr
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.: Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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What happens when the future has come and gone?: Robert Half
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.: John L. Motley (1814 - 1877)
People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it. The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 28. Power is never given. Power is taken., 08-22-04
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.: Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.: Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation
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My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.: Joe Weinstein
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.: Henry S. Haskins
If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too.: John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.: Diane Wakoski