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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
I am never afraid of what I know.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Cat's Cradle
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.: Unknown
Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.: Jerry Frankhauser
What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader's Digest, 1979
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That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.: Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.: Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
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People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
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