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How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.: John Green (1977 - ), An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.: Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990
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I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.: Hillary Rodham Clinton (1948 - ), Ellen DeGeneres interview, 04-07-08
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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Live well. It is the greatest revenge.: The Talmud
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
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People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Berenice
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We're actors - we're the opposite of people.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.: J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), speaking of Albert Einstein
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Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.: Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996)
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You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
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The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.: John Green (1977 - ), An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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