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If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.: Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.: Pete Seeger
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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?: Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.: Warren Buffett (1930 - )
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.: R. D. Hitchcock
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.: Doris Lessing
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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.: Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
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We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
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Charity sees the need not the cause.: German Proverb
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)