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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.: Chinese Proverb
The best way to get approval is not to need it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 27, 08-22-04
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.: Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003
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When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.: Whoopi Goldberg
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It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), David Copperfield, 1849
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There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.: Richard Rybolt
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If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.: Phyllis Diller
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Things are only impossible until they're not.: Hannah Louise Shearer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, When The Bough Breaks, 1988
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.: John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century
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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932
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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.: Karen Sunde
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To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.: Robert Copeland
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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.: Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
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Living hell is the best revenge.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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