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Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.: Shirley MacLaine (1934 - )
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Give It Your All, 06-22-12
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.: Joseph Chilton Pearce
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A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.: The Talmud
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
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Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
You create your opportunities by asking for them.: Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05
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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
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A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.: Eleanor Hamilton
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.: Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
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Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.: Graffito
You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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