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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go... A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I
Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.: Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC)
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.: Grenville Kleiser
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.: Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
All movements go too far.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.': William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
All television is children's television.: Richard P. Adler
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Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716