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Wish not so much to live long as to live well.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.: Jessica Alba
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.: Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.: Marquis de Vauvenargues
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.: Thomas Overbury (1581 - 1613)
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.: Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.: Derek Sivers, TED Talk: Weird, or just different? Nov 2009
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain: Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.: Latin Proverb
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The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.: Harold B. Lee (1899 - 1973)
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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.: Cullen Hightower
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)