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I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.: Jacqueline Cochran (1910 - 1980)
You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up.: Howard Gordon and Evan Katz, Awake, Ricky's Tacos, April 2012
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.: Unknown
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.: John Gaule
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.): Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.: Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
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Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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Energy is eternal delight.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.: Marquis de la Grange (1639 - 1692)
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.: Sue Patton Thoele
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.: David Brin (1950 - )
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