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I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.: Richard Diran
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.: Rita Mae Brown
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Nothing fails like success.: Gerald Nachman
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.: Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Buy the ticket take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.: Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.: Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.: Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, 06-26-09
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.: Paul Graham, September 2004
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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.: Mary S. Calderone
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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