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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.: Emo Phillips
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People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
There must be more to life than having everything.: Maurice Sendak (1928 - )
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.: Thomas Overbury (1581 - 1613)
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.: Anonymous, Graffito
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I never know how much of what I say is true.: Bette Midler (1945 - )
God creates men, but they choose each other.: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
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I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.: Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), O Magazine, May 2004
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to associate with him.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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A finished person is a boring person.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)