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America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.: Anthony Walton
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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None of us is as smart as all of us.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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A problem isn’t a problem until it actually happens.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.: Ralph Charell
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
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To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.: Joan Klempner
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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.: Peter de Vries
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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When you're through changing, you're through.: Bruce Barton
I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.: Martha Stewart, in McCall's
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.: Marchioness Townsend
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.: John Cleese (1939 - )
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.: Sheila Graham
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.: Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
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