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I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.: Graffito, in Los Angeles
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
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Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.: Hasidic Saying
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.: Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
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Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else.": Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
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It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Answers to Nine Questions"
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I
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