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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.: Chinese Proverb
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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.: Will Durst
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.: Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958), Crewe Train, 1926
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
It's better to be a company than to work for a company.: Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?: Frank Scully
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.: Stephen King (1947 - ), "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.: Beverly Sills (1929 - )