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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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Walter Anderson
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
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Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.
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Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
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Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
We're all in this alone.
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Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
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Jimmy Demaret
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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Saadi (1184 - 1291)
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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Dan Rather (1931 - )
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
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Russell P. Askue
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
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Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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