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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.: Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
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It’s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-09-05
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.: Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.: Nick Faldo
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
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Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.: Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), No. 1333
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Nothing fails like success.: Gerald Nachman
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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