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Luck is the residue of design.: Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965), Lecture title, 1950
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.: William Wrigley Jr. (1861 - 1932)
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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.: Kurt Herbert Alder
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Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.: David Russell, I Heart Huckabee's
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.: Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.: Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
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Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.: Matt Witten, House M.D., Cursed, 2004
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.: Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
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If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.: Phyllis Diller
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.: Baltasar Gracian
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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.: C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
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One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.: Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.: Joe Martin, Porterfield
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.: Junot Diaz, O Magazine, November 2009
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