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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.
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Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, 06-26-09
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
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Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.
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Matthew V. Lewis, House M.D., Last Resort, 2008
It's not a 9-5 job. It's an every moment you're awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you're doing.
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Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Designing for Community with Zero-Advertising Brands, SXSW 2006
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
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Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - )
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
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Martin Mull (1943 - )
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 12-29-05
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
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William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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