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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.: Dr. Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990)
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.: Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.: Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.: Sydney J. Harris
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.: Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
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Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-14-2005
Reading is no substitute for action.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 07-26-08
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.: Robert Orben
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.: John Updike (1932 - )
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915