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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.: Evan Davis
But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.: Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, pg. 1 line 3-4
A smiling face is half the meal.: Latvian Proverb
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Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.: Tupac Shakur, Smile
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.
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How his death hung over that house. It’s part of what I know to be true—your absence is greater than your presence.: Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, 2013
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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.: Lord Newborough, Motto
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838
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Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.: David Reisman
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
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