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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.: Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
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Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.: Ted Morgan
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine...: John Donne (1572 - 1631), Devotions XVII
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.: Hesiod (~800 BC)
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.: Hasidic Saying
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
All people want is someone to listen.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
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Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716