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The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.: Gordon R. Dickson
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.: David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06
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An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.: Benjamin Stolberg
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.: Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.: 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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Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.: Unknown
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
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It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.: Queen Christina (1626 - 1689), of Sweden
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.: Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)
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