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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.: Chuck Reid
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), The Joy of Children, 1964
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The American Scholar, August 31, 1837
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, 1599-1600
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.: David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.: Doug Larson
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Those whom we support hold us up in life.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.: John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.: Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable.: John Mankiewicz, House, The Socratic Method, 2004
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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Feel the fear and do it anyway.: Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.: Marian Evans
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)