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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.: Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990)
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.: Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007)
I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHEATON dot NET, 12-16-2013
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.: Georges Duhamel (1884 - 1966)
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Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix.: Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.: Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
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Fish and visitors smell in three days.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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The shortest route to getting things done is just do it.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.: Minna Thomas Antrim
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.: The Mishnah
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)