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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.: Piet Hein (1905 - ), "Grooks"
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.: Pat Paulsen
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?: Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006
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The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.: Louis Vermeil
With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?': Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.: Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.: Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.: Sophy Burnham
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.: Karen Sunde
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.: Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)
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