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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.: Phillip C. McGraw, O Magazine, February 2003
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
The reverse side also has a reverse side.: Japanese Proverb
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Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
Imagination is more important than knowledge...: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.: Unknown
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.: Thomas Szasz
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.: Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve 'made it'.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31. Remain Frugal., 08-22-04
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.: Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002
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The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?: Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)