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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.: Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.: Emo Phillips
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
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All television is children's television.: Richard P. Adler
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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.: Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.: Eudora Welty (1909 - )
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You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.: Noela Evans
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.: Inigo DeLeon
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.: Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004