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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.: Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.: Toni Morrison (1931 - ), Beloved
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I am not young enough to know everything.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 191
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Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Incidentals (1907)
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.: Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958), on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.: David Smith
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.: Warren Buffett (1930 - )
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.: Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.: James Lane Allen
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