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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.: Patricia Neal
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The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.: Amanda Cross (1926 - )
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Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.: Katharine Whitehorn
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.: Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
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In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.: Rabbi Seymour Siegel
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It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.: Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 06-15-05
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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.: Mark B. Cohen
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), 1897
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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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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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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.: Robertson Davies
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.: Brenda Ueland
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.: Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
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