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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
It is only the first step that is difficult.: Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.: Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), New Hampshire Democratic Primary Speech, 01-08-08
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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We can only learn to love by loving.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February 2004
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.: Walter Anderson
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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.: Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
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I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Anthem, 1946
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.: Louis I Kahn
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