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Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.: Dale Carnegie
A motion to adjourn is always in order.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Lazarus Long: Time Enough For Love
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.: P. D. James
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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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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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 12-19-2011
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
'If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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