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Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.: Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.: Louis C. K., Reddit, 2012
Virtue is choked with foul ambition.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.: Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)
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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.: H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.: Greg Garcia, Raising Hope, Dead Tooth, 09-28-10
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
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