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I don't think it's good that we're perceived as different I think it's important we're perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that'd be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don't care about being different, but we'll have to be different in some ways to be much better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.': Ellen DeGeneres
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.: Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973), "Pogo" (comic strip)
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.: Aimee Mullins, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.: Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 08-23-11
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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Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.: Robert S. McNamara (1916 - ), former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.: Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
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For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.: W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.: Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945), The Woman Within, 1954
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Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.: Garry Trudeau (1948 - )
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.: Annie Dillard, 'The Writing Life'