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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.: Dr. Thomas Dooley
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.': Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
Woe be to him that reads but one book.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.: Edward L. Flom
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-25-05
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Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.': Jef Mallett, Frazz, 07-29-07
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Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.: A. H. Weiler (1909 - 2002)
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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