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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.: Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.: Marcus Brigstocke
Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.: Alice Childress
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.: Alban Goodier
Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.: Ancient Proverb
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Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.: Peter da Silva
I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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