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To try to be better is to be better.: Charlotte Cushman (1816 - 1876), quoted in O Magazine, December 2003
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.: Tina Fey, Vogue Interview, 2010
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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.: Deepak Chopra
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
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Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.: Putt's Law
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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True love cannot exist with true ambition.: John Green (1977 - ), Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.: Czech Proverb
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If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.: Elaine Gill
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.: C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
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Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.: Terry Pratchett
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.: Emile Chartier
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I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.: Andrew S. Tanenbaum