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Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.: Tupac Shakur, Smile
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Is there life before death?: Graffito, in Belfast
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
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Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.: Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.: Alvin Toffler
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.: Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968)
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942), last words
When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.: William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
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He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.: Isabel Colegate
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all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.: Dale Carnegie
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Knowledge is power.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
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