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My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
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The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 06-29-06
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
I am a deeply superficial person.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.: Edward L. Flom
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.: Spanish Proverb
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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.: Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927
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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101, 1991
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A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.: Willis Player
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.: Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.: Doris Mortman
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.: Katharine Butler Hathaway
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