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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.: Mike Ditka (1939 - )
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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.: Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
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That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I think when I work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.: Armand Hammer (1898 - 1990)
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.: Chris Rapier
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.: Simone de Beauvoir
When things are at their worst I find something always happens.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?: Scott Adams (1957 - )
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I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.: Evelyn Rodriguez, Crossroads Dispatches, 04-12-2006
If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.: H. L. Hunt