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My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.: Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971)
Happiness depends upon ourselves.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.: Margaret Fairless Barber
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.: Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.: Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.: Richard Bach
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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So little time and so little to do.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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Even the great get greater by doing more of it.: Colleen Wainwright, communitcatrix, 04-10-2006
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.: Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.': Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)