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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.: Langston Coleman
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History is more or less bunk.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.: John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The body is a sacred garment.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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Age is no guarantee of maturity.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 6, 08-22-04
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.: Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.: Joan Baez (1941 - )
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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The only joy in the world is to begin.: Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.: Vernon Sanders Law
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May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.: Sara June Parker
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.: Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.: Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863 - 1938)
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)