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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.: R. D. Laing
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.: Eugene Mirman, LHS Commencement Speech, 2009
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.: Thomas J. Watson
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.: Robert A. Ward
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.: Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland
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To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.: Robert Orben
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.: Christopher Hampton
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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.: Marcus Bridgstocke
This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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