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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
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It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.: Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The American Scholar, August 31, 1837
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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.: German Proverb
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.: Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), September 11, 1956
[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.: Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.: Latin Proverb
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Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.: Willis Player
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.: Mel Brooks (1926 - )
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Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.: Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.: Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)